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CLASS OF 1870 

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 



1917 



LEMUEL S. HASTINGS, Secretary 




Printed at the Dartmouth Press 

Hanover. N. H, 

1917 



FRANCIS BROWN 
By John King Lord '68 

The death of Francis Brown, which occurred on the 15th of October 
last, removed from the circle of the alumni of the College one who was 
in many respects its foremost representative. 

Dr. Brown's relation to the College was historic and inherited. His 
grandfather, whose name he bore, was the president of the College dur- 
ing the troubled years from 1815 to 1820, and to his wisdom, sacrifice 
and devotion were due, in great measure, the security of the charter and 
the existence of the College. His father, Samuel Oilman Brown, was a 
graduate of Dartmouth and a professor from 1841 to 1867, then president 
of Hamilton College, and in his later life again an interim instructor at 
Dartmouth, filling a vacancy in the department of intellectual philosophy. 

Dr. Brown was himself a graduate of the College in the class of 
1870, being the foremost scholar of the class, and a tutor in Greek for 
two years, and in 1879, on the death of Professor Proctor, he was 
invited to the chair of Greek. Later, he was a member of the College 
board of preachers for the eight years of its existence, and from 1905, 
until his death, he was a member of the Board of Trust. Twice he 
was offered the presidency of the College, but felt that the call of duty 
lay in another direction. 

Following in the steps of his father and his grandfather, he turned 
in his youth to the Christian ministry, and graduating at Union Theolog- 
ical Seminary in 1877 he received the Seminary fellowship, by which he 
enjoyed a two j^ears' residence at the university of Berlin. On his re- 
turn from Berlin he was recalled to the Seminary as an instructor, and 
the connection thus made was ended only by his death, becoming more 
intimate and vital as he became successively professor, a director and 
president of the Seminar^'-. His wnde scholarly interests were indicated 
by his active membership in several learned societies, by his association 
with the directorate of several important institutions and by the honorar}^ 
degrees conferred upon him by many colleges and universities in this 
country and by the universities of Glasgow and Oxford in Great Britain. 
The fruit of his studies appeared not onl}^ in his utterances in the pulpit 
but in various publications, some that were tributar}^ to current discus- 
sion, and some, like his Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testa- 
ment, that were a permanent contribution to linguistic scholarship. As 
a scholar he held first rank among the living graduates of the College. 

The period of his connection with the Seminary was marked by that 
upheaval in religious thought that attended the rise of the so-called 
"higher criticism," by a changed emphasis in belief and, in some cases, 



by a rc-statement of doctrine. In this movement Dr. Brown had a part 
as a leader and not as a fanatic. He retained the strength and simplicit}^ 
of his early faith, but enlarged and enriched it by wider knowledge and 
more generous sympathy. His leadership in the movement to interpret 
religious truth according to the results of modern scholarship and mod- 
ern thinking, and to bring the Seminary into accord with the advance of 
knowledge, did not escape criticism and opposition. 

When the Seminary was under fire before the General Assembly of 
the Presbyterian Church for unsoundness of doctrinal instruction, as 
indicated by the examination of some of its graduates. Dr. Brown up- 
held its liberty and defended its teachings so successfully that the 
institution was m.ore firmly established in the confidence of the religious 
world, and, in the 3'ears that followed, it received a more generous 
support in the number of its students and in material endowments. 

It was in such activities and relations as these that the char- 
acteristics of Dr. Brown appeared. He was a scholar b}^ inheri- 
tance and by training, loving knowledge for knov/ledge's sake and 
and also for its application to life. His ideal was of the high- 
est. From his college life to his latest study he w^as satisfied 
with nothing less than his best, and to make his v/ork complete he was 
willing to give to it unlimited time and labor^ His ideal was matched 
and strengthened by a sen.se of duty. It was this sense that led )iim 
to decline the presidency of the College, as he would not abandon the 
Seminary to which he felt himself in honor bound. 

To his scholarship, developed as much on the side of power as of 
knowledge, he added adm.inistrative abilit}^ of a high order, which was 
recognized by his associates in placing him at the head of the Seminary, 
and w^as attested by his success in that position. In the conflict of 
opinions and the consequent tendenc}^ to draw apart of men wdio ought 
to have worked together. Dr. Brown was chosen for this position 
because of the sagacity by which he was able to estimate opposing in- 
terests and to bring them into working relations. Never a settled pastor, 
he was greatly sought as a preacher, being effective in the pulpit not so 
much from the grace and force of his delivery as from the depth and 
scope of liis thought, the riclmess of liis spiritual experience, and the 
almost matchless simplicity and beauty of his style. His English was a 
draught from a "vvcll undefiled." His pra3'ers were the expression of a 
spiritual life that carried to others the suggestion of its divine source 
and led them to desire a knowledge of it. 

Personally Dr. Brown was a notevN^orthy man. Of fine physique, 
tall and v-/ell proportioned, his body was a fitting symbol of his mind, 
in his 3^outh he engaged in athletic sports and never lost his interest in 
them, being ever an interested spectator of the contests of college teams. 



In manner Dr. Brown was cordial but reserved. He had no fund of 
small talk, and did not always appear at ease in ordinary conversa- 
tion; he did not have the art of communicating himself. With very few 
could he be said to be intimate. He did not easily reveal himself in 
intercourse, as it was less difficult for him to disclose his feelings with 
his pen than with his voice, but he had a deeply sympathetic nature and 
under a quiet exterior carried a heart that was warm and unusually 
affectionate, and that had an intense and often unsuspected interest in 
others. Of the fine quality of his family life this is not the place to 
speak. 

The death of Dr. Brown is a severe loss to the College, as it not 
only removes one of the prominent members^ of the Board of Trust, 
l)ut one who for some time has been the only representative on that 
Board of the clergy, who once had so large a proportion, and the one 
wlio. apart from the president, has been most closely in touch with edu- 
cational movements. His experience, sagacity, and devotion to the inter- 
ests of the College cannot be replaced, but to his successor he has left 
an inspiring example. 

Dr. Brown's last visit to the College was at the inauguration of Pres- 
ident Hopkins, when, on behalf of the Trustees, he put into the hands of 
tlie new president the charter of the College as the symbol of its inter- 
ests. Xo one who saw him on that occasion failed to note the face on 
which disease, that w^as all too soon to become fatal, had set its mark, and 
to feel that it was only b}*^ a heroic effort that he delivered a message 
that v»'as in the nature of an accolade, as he said of- the charter and to 
the president: "It is good lavr, and good histor}^ and good religion. It 
has been through the fire. Guard it as your life." 

He himself has fulfilled that trust, he has kept his faith, and now he 
has entered into his labors and his works do follow him. 



m^. 



PREFACE 

Regarding the long delay in publishing this Report little 
need be said. Your Secretary deeply regrets it. He feels that 
there is some excuse for it. But it seems just as well not to 
waste words in apolog}\ 

As to the plan, or method, of the Report, it will readily be 
seen that the sketches are for the most part autobiographic. 
Such facts as have come to hand from other sources than the 
subject himself have been incorporated ; and in some instances 
the sketch has been prepared wholly by the Secretary. 

It has been assumed that each member of the Class has 
kept his earlier Reports, of 1874 and 1891. Sketches of mem- 
bers who died before 1891 have therefore not been reproduced, 
and in the case of our other classmates most of the facts prior 
to that date have been omitted from this Report. 

The Secretary has been much gratified to receive so gen- 
eral a response to his request for photographs. The Report 
contains portraits of nearly every living member and of ten 
others. It will be deeply interesting to compare these pictures 
with those taken forty-seven years ago, so like in some instances, 
in others so wonderfully different ! 

There has been no further thinning of our ranks, as far as 
your Secretary knows at this date (September 1, 1917), since 
Farnham's death last November. 

I should be glad to present a complete list of the children 
of all the men of '70, but some have failed to send in the nec- 
essary data, and my statistical table found on page 72 is only 
partial. 

I feel that the sketches that make up this Report are lacking 
in the more personal and intimate facts. Many of you will say, 
I am quite sure, as you read this or that classmate's history, 
"Why did he not give us something of his inner experience? 
Why did he not tell us what sort of philosophy of life had 
evolved out of his struggles, his successes, failures ; and what in 
his experience had seemed most worth while ?" Some of you have 
done this, at least to some extent. Most of you have contented 
yourselves with a rather meagre account of the outside facts. It 
is partly the Secretary's fault. I ought to have urged you to be 
more personal and intimate. I ought to have urged (insisted?) 
that each of you contribute something to at least one sketch 
besides your own, out of your more or less intimate acquaintance 
with that particular classmate. 



Perhaps a Report — a real Class History — will be prepared 
three or four years hence in which the matter here presented 
will be supplemented with other matter of a more intimate sort, 
and on the plan suggested above. With this in view I purpose 
to have a sufficient number of sheets printed and preserved un- 
bound to serve as the basis for a later Report. 

I will not deny that a good deal of time and labor has been 
put into this enterprise ; but I assure you that I have been deeply 
interested in it. The result such as it is I put into your hands, 
with the hope that you will not find it seriously deficient, and with 
much assurance that you will enjoy both what is here recorded 
and what your memory and your imagination will supply. 

Very affectionately yours, 

Lemuel S. Hastings 




Ira a. Abbott 



IRA ANSON ABBOTT hjU^ ^ d[. It^/lLf 

Born July 20, 1845, Barnard, Vt. ^ ^^j^jJ^^JljU ^M 



Abbott was in 1898 appointed by Governor Walcott of 
Massachusetts, Judge of what was then the Police Court of 
Haverhill, but soon after was made the Central District Court 
of Northern Essex, with increased territory and enlarged juris- 
diction. He held that office until early in 1905 when he resigned 
it to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
Territory of New Mexico by appointment of President Roose- 
velt for the term of four years. He was reappointed by Presi- 
dent Taft but before the expiration of the second term New 
Mexico became a state and the Court of which he had been a 
member for seven years went out of existence. While in New 
Mexico he resided at Albuquerque but spent a considerable part 
of each year at the capital, Santa Fe, in Supreme Court work. 
When he was in New Mexico a vacancy occurred in the office of 
United States Judge for China and without any solicitation or 
even previous knowledge on his part, he was, by President 
Roosevelt, requested to take that position. Although the offer 
was tempting in itself and was, besides, in the nature of recogni- 
tion of his services in New Mexico, he decided not to accept it, 
as he was unwilling to leave the United States for a long period. 

His appointment to the office in New Mexico came about in 
a way which fairly makes it a part of our class history. In 1902 
President Roosevelt removed a Judge of the Alaska Supreme 
Court and in talk with a personal friend in New York, he spoke 
of the difficulty he experienced in filling the Federal offices in 
Alaska with fit men and asked his friend, who was not in poli- 
tics, if he could suggest a good man for the vacant judgeship, 
one especially who would deal impartially and at the same time 
firmly with the mining interests there. The friend happened to 
be a friend and office neighbor of our classmate Steele, and 
they occasionally lunched together. While the President's dif- 
ficulty was fresh in his mind, he met Steele at lunch and asked 
him if he could suggest some one for the place. Steele told him 
that he believed Abbott would be the right man and might under- 
take the work if he could be led to think it his duty to do so. 
That was reported to the President and he, at once, summoned 
Abbott to Washington and he went without knowing what was 
wanted of him. The result was that although the President was 



very desirous that he should accept the appointment, he did not 
decide that it was his duty under the circumstances and decHned 
it. He did, however, say that if he could later be of service 
he would be glad to do so. More than two years afterwards a 
similar difficulty arose in New Mexico. One of the Supreme 
Court Judges was removed or required to resign on account of 
his alleged connection with a political faction there, and Abbott 
was appointed to the vacancy, the President remembering the 
favorable opinion he had formed of him in connection with the 
Alaska Judgeship. A few days after the completion of his 
service and while he was making preparations to return to the 
East the bar and citizens of Albuquerque where he had resided 
for seven years tendered him a banquet. The leading paper of 
the Territory said, in an account of this banquet: 

"In a situation which demanded the most absolute balance 
and disregard of partisan sentiment, Judge Abbott acquitted him- 
self as a just judge and not once has the charge been made that 
in any decision his personal feelings have influenced the scales 
of justice an iota. The choice of President Roosevelt, at a time 
when 'carpet-bag' was an oft heard term here, has been abun- 
dantly vindicated since the day Judge Abbott accepted the appoint- 
ment and it is doubtful if another man could have been found 
anywhere so well qualified by reason of temperament and abil- 
ity to take up the work of the bench at that time. In addition. 
Judge Abbott has been a valuable and public-spirited citizen of 
Albuquerque and of New Mexico, a fact of which his recent 
generous donation of a $5,000 building to the Young Women's 
Christian association is only one manifestation. Judge Abbott 
has not stated his future plans, other than that he is not a candi- 
date for any office in New Mexico. It is to be hoped he will 
maintain his residence in the new state as long as he can con- 
sistently do so. Judge Abbott is a high type of the honest and 
useful public servant and his services are fully appreciated by 
both the people and the bar in this district. His administration 
has made strongly for steadiness in the moral tone of the dis- 
trict, respect for the laws and a feeling of public confidence, in 
the strongest contrast with the demoralization which threatened 
immediately before his arrival here. The work of Judge Abbott 
has demonstrated in a striking manner how close the judiciary 
is to the moral foundation of a community." 

In February, 1912 he returned to Haverhill, Mass., but has 
not resumed practice. 

He has travelled somewhat widely, and in addition to the 
places of chief interest in the United States and Canada, has 



visited the West Indies, Panama, the Northern part of South 
America, Old Mexico, Alaska, Europe twice, Algiers, Egypt, 
Palestine, Northern Syria, and other parts of the Turkish do- 
minion, including Constantinople and islands in the Eastern 
Mediterranean. A considerable number of letters from him 
descriptive of his travels have appeared in the daily press. 

In the "History of New Mexico" (Pacific States Publishing 
Co., 1907) is a biographical sketch in which it was said: — "Hon. 
Ira A. Abbott, who became Judge of the second judicial district 
in January, 1905 under appointment by President Roosevelt in 
December, 1904 has distinguished himself during the brief period 
of his occupancy of the bench of New Mexico by his manifest 
lack of political prejudice and by the fairness and justice which 
have characterized his decisions. Judge Abbott has won the 
unqualified respect of the bar of New Mexico during his com- 
paratively brief incumbency of office, and it has come to be 
a thoroughly recognized fact that cases brought before him for 
trial will be adjusted solely on their merits." 

In "The Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society 
for the Years 1913-1914" Dorman B. E. Kent, the librarian of 
the Society, gives a list of the one thousand most eminent men 
born in Vermont. In this list appears the name of Ira A. 
Abbott, credited to the town of Barnard, where he was born in 
1845. 



ALEXANDER S. ABERNETHY 
Born September 27, 1848, St. Louis, Mo. 

Abernethy speaks for himself under date of June 12, 1916. 
"Seattle, Wash., June 12, 1916. 
"My dear Hastings: — 

"Your circular came in due time, and was laid aside till a 
more convenient season, which as usual, did not come right 
away. 

"However, I did get around to the photograph part, and 
sent you the result a few days ago. My friends say it is a very 
fair presentment of me *as is,' and I believe they are right. 

"The camera man seems to have tried to 'set down naught 
in malice, and naught extenuate,' and to have succeeded. 

"Adding to the visible points in the photo, my weight is 145 
pounds, just about twenty-five pounds more than it was forty-six 
years ago — not a very startling gain considering the length of time. 
1 have gained a good deal of experience, profitable and otherwise, 
and lost some beliefs and ideals that used to be the foundation 
stones of my universe, but we all do that. The part of my 
life-story that would be of interest to the class is easily told. 
The forty-five years since our graduation have all been spent 
in the somewhat limited area of Western Washington and Ore- 
gon. They have been filled with hard work, bringing success 
and failure alternately, as they do to most men — neither in over- 
flowing measure. 

"Now, as my sixty-seventh birthday comes near, and I look 
back over the years passed, and forward to those likely to come, 
I am content, as far as one ever can be content when the best 
he attains to, falls so far short of what he sees he might have 
reached. 

"The dreams and hopes of our commencement day have 
mostly faded and passed into the limbo of departed shades, ex- 
cept one hope that is strong within me yet — that when the final 
call comes to me, and I pass into 

. . . 'The night that soon 

Shall shape and shadow overflow.' 

it shall be said of me that a man has lived and died, and done 
a man's part among his fellows, whether for good or ill. 

"I have lived in Seattle for the last twenty-seven years, en- 
gaged most of the time in the ocean shipping business. 

"I was married June 28, 1882, to Elizabeth Mae Jennings, 
of Oregon City, Oregon, who is still living. We have had three 
sons : — < 

8 




Alexander S. Abernethy 



''Frederick Houghton, born April 21, 1884, died February 
26, 1887. 

"William Eliot, born November 27, 1886, a seaman, now an 
officer on a steamship plying between New York and Porto 
Rico. 

"Donald Jennings, born July 1, 1890, now a student in the 
University of Washington, Seattle. 

"I saw Abbott twice hurriedly the last of July and early 
in August of last year (1914), and he will tell you of the cir- 
cumstances that made our meetings so short, while he was in 
Seattle on his way to and from Alaska. Aside from him, I have 
not seen any of the class since a few weeks after our graduation. 
I hope all the others remaining have been as generally well and 
feel as young as I do. The years sit lightly on me, mentally 
and physically, for which I am very glad. I especially hope 
your burden of years is light as mine, though perhaps that is a 
good deal to expect of one so much older than I. You were 
born the day before I was. 

"I sent for the class photograph, (1915) and it is before me 
as I write. The Dartmouth you sent told me whom to look for, 
and I found them all. It is a good-looking group, and I am 
proud to 'belong.' Certainly I am not the only one of the class 
the years have touched lightly, and I am glad to know it is so. 

"A good many of the fellows have taken to my way of wear- 
ing the hair, which is sensible. It saves time taking care of it, 
which is a great point in these days when the efficiency engineer 
is abroad in the land. Also, it keeps us awake in church on sum- 
mer days when the fly is busy. I need not tell you I am always 
glad to hear from you and learn how the fellows are getting 
along, and shall always be more than glad if any of you should 
ever get as far west as this. 

"With heartiest good wishes for you and yours and all the 
class, and hoping to receive the class history in good time, 

"Fraternally yours, 

A. S. Abernethy.^' 



JOHN HENRY ALLEN 

Born December 6, 1843, Hartland, Vt. 
Died May 20, 1910, Burnside, Conn. 

Allen, since 1890, had ministered in Burnside, Norwich, 
and Phoenix, Conn. ; Newport, R. I. ; East Weymouth, and Tol- 
land, Mass.; and again (his last parish) in Burnside. 

Here he died. May 20, 1910. He had been ill for several 
months, having preached his last sermon February 6. 

Allen had been a student through his entire ministry. He 
had become intensely interested in tracing Biblical citations in 
American literature, and had published two articles, one on the 
"Bible in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne," and one on the 
"Bible in the Works of George Cable." He contemplated writing 
a book on the "Bible in American Literature." 

He was given the degree of D.D. by his alma mater in 
1908. At that time your Secretary had the pleasure of meeting 
him, and enjoyed several chats with him largely reminiscent, of 
course, of college days. 

Allen had endeared himself to a large circle of parishioners, 
and brother ministers. This is attested by the following ex- 
tract from the Conference Year Book. (Members of 70 will 
recognize in this tribute the conscientious, sternly upright, char- 
itable young man of our college days. 

"Doctor Allen was not a man of isolated friendships ; he 
loved the brethren; slow to criticize, he was chary of blame, 
liberal in his appreciation and applause. Charitable in judgment 
of others, he was stern towards himself ; resolute against evil, 
he was pitiful to the living and abounding in effort to reclaim 
the disowned of men. 

"Not as a lord of God's heritage, but as a minister of the 
manifold grace of God, he was among men as one who served, 
seeking to provoke them to love and good works. 

"As a member of the Board of Examiners and for many 
years the chairman, he did work which in effectiveness and 
value, shall long continue. 

"We who knew him well, were proud of his attainments, 
quick to seek his counsel, thankful that he was one of us. 

"In the unassuming beauty of godliness, he lived his life in 
our midst, a good man full of faith and the Holy Ghost." 



10 




John H. Allen 



THEODORE MOSES BARBER, A. M. 

Born September 12, 1846, Epping, N. H. 
Died November 24, 1915, Pittsburg, Pa. 

Barber's whole life after 1870 was spent in Pittsburg. He 
was instructor in Latin for three years in the Western University 
of Pennsylvania; then Professor of Latin and English till 1899, 
when owing to a change in the policy of the institution and 
the design of making it mainly a technical school, his connection 
with it ceased. 

I 'Cannot learn that he did any active work as a teacher or a 
writer after this. His life was one of retirement, and after the 
death of his wife in 1897 he lived quite alone — ''lived alone and 
played the hermit," are his own words. He has been character- 
ized repeatedly as a "bibliophile," and he so characterizes himself. 
His library, which grew to more than 7000 volumes was his one 
great interest during the last fifteen years of his life. 

In 1909 some sort of paralysis began to trouble him, and up 
to 1915 he was in a hospital at four different times, spending 
thus six months in all. On June 20, 1915, he wrote to the Secre- 
tary that he had suffered but little pain and had found his hos- 
pital experience a pleasant one, that he had been well treated and 
had made several interesting acquaintances. Our next intelli- 
gence was of his death at St. Francis Hospital on November 24. 
Certain newspaper clippings, sent to the secretary speak of "Pro- 
fessor Barber's" peculiar traits and habits as a recluse and bib- 
liophile, but they also refer to his modest and kindly ways, his 
thorough knowledge of English literature, his "thoroughness and 
strict discipline" as a teacher, and the great satisfaction which 
those who were ambitious to learn found in the courses which 
he conducted. 

He married, April 19, 1877, Miss Cornelia Porter of Pitts- 
burg, who died in 1897. They had no children. 

I will quote, in closing, a few lines from the letter of June, 
1915 referred to above. 

"It might not hurt me to go to Hanover but I do not like 
to risk the result of the fatigue and excitement. I greatly regret 
not being present at the meeting. I trust that you incipient vet- 
erans will have an interesting reunion. 

"I have lived alone for nearly thirty years. I have always 
been an extravagant book-buyer since I was a boy. I have about 
7500 volumes. I am, in a sense, a slave to my books, but they 
have given me much pleasure." 

I refer you to Brown's sketch for some remarks on Barber. 



II 



JOHN ADAMS BELLOWS 
Born May 27, 1848, Littleton, N. H. 

In 1898 he moved from Portland (Me.) to Boston and at 
115 Beacon Street established a school for girls. He and Mrs. 
Bellows were jointly engaged in the conduct of this school. In 
1906 they changed the school into a Home for School Girls 
and at the above address continued the "Home" till 1910, since 
which date they have maintained the same institution in Brook- 
line, Mass. 

For the rest I will let Bellows speak for himself. I quote 
from his letter of August 12, 1916 : 

"From 1906 I gave private lessons in English and English 
Literature, and lectured (from 1908 to 1913) on such subjects 
as Modern Poetry, Modern Drama, Recent Novels, etc., in Port- 
land, Me., Providence, R. I., Portsmouth, N. H., and Augusta, 
Me. 

"The last two years and a half have been for me, if not like 
the history of Viola's imaginary sister, in 'Twelfth Night,' *a 
blank, my lord,' yet a sufficiently dreary experience of sanitariums 
and hospitals, with distressing nervous troubles. I am slowly 
recovering in this beautiful old town" (Walpole, N. H.) "the 
birthplace of my father and mother, and the home of many of 
my ancestors — mostly now in the village cemetery — with a few 
surviving kindred still living here. 

"I have been writing a few reminiscences of persons and 
places and days I have known; but chiefly (without the envy of 
— was it not? — Themistocles) delight in hearing the rustle of 
laurel leaves around the head, not of Miltiades, but of my son, 
Henry Adams Bellows, of Minneapolis, who is doing in his 
editorial work, far more for literature than ever I could accom- 
plish. 

"I am glad to learn of any of the '70 boys — as, one by one, 
the lights go out, and leave us, not I hope in the darkness, but 
in the fast gathering twilight. I can not realize that I am 68 
years old; for in spite of age, many things — great poetry, the 
wonderful mountain-scenery we have had at Intervale for sev- 
eral years, the kindness of friends, — are as be^-utiful to me as 
they ever were." 

Note: The secretary wishes to remind the class of the 
two reunion poems Bellows contributed in 1905 and 1910. They 
were printed and a copy was sent, I believe to each living mem- 
ber of the class. A number of copies are in my hands, and 
can be sent to any who wish. His Poem, In Memoriam of Frank 
Brown will be found in this Report. 

12 



VERSES FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

OF THE GRADUATION OF THE CLASS OF 

1870, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 



1 

Here, in m^ father's home, the long grass waves, 

The great elms lift their boughs above my head; 

The bobolink sings : This is a place of graves ! 

The air is full of memories of the dead. 

I think of saintly women, noble men 

Who come, as lovely ghosts, to walk our earth again. 

2 

Aye, but their word is for the living soul ! 
For him who of his sires may proudly boast 
Like sword-thrust sounds a voice : Live in the Whole, 
Ere you, too, join us on that heavenly coast 
Which far, but very near, to-night doth seem; 
As did your fathers, follow thou the Gleam! 

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So, with the flight of the long fifty years ; 

Here, with our little straggling, war-scarred band, 

Ours is the vision still, though blurred by tears, 

The battle-sword drops not from out our hand. 

Brothers of Seventy, still for us is heard — 

As spake the wise old Bard that high immortal word 

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Unto his comrades, faint, hard pressed and few, 

(The singer of th' unconquerable mind) < 

This is the charge, my brothers, unto you : 

"To whom the Impossible is lure" shall find 

Still for his soul, at three score years and ten, 

A never-vanquished joy, some Eden won again. 

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She calls us back — the mother of us all- 
Old Dartmouth — old? nay, ever fresh and young! 
See how her laurels green o'er fair brows fall, 
Her heart still brave for victories unsung. 
Back doth she call us to her bounteous breast, 
Her magic voice invites us : Hither come, and rest 

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A moment from the turmoil and the strife 

Of clashing swords, the busy hum of men 

Eager for gain, the hard-fought gifts of life, 

Rest, ere you turn to noble work again. 

Not rest, but warfare, till the end has come, 

And the Great Marshal of the Field doth call you home! 

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How they come back to-night, those far-off days. 
Fifty — nay, twenty years? — or is it ten? — 
Since, the bright vision, down long-vistaed ways 
Stretched fair before us. Oh, we're young again. 
Are boys once more, with minds aflame for truth, 
— The long, long thoughts of our high-hearted youth. 

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I see them standing in a gleaming line — 

The haughty youth who front the shining way — 

Their faces dauntless, threatening, and fine, * 

With light upon them from some unproved Day, 

All resolute to meet Fate's keenest darts. • 

With radiant shields above unconquerable hearts. 



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fallen comrades in the long, hot race, 
Ave et vale, we salute you here ! 

The well-remembered voice, the old dear face, — 

We list — we see — we greet you with a cheer. 

A smile for you, beloved, through our tears ; 

Give us your faithful hands, down the dark vale of years. 

10 

Dear hearts, forgive me, if, of all I see, 

1 note but few, who, as the Roman said 
In courtly phrase, join the majority. 
The glorious company of the noble dead. 
Haply, now watching from some heavenly hill, 
Unheard, you answer Adsum at our Roll Call still ! 

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Francis Brown 

First, and first always, that elect, white soul 

Whom knowledge turned to character made wise : 

Learned in books, yet living in the whole 

Of life, great-hearted, with calm-looking eyes — 

Too early dead — alas ! my dearest friend. 

Wisest and best I've known, or shall know to the end. 

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George S. Edgell 

And — ^'fratres nohiles" — beloved pair ! 
He of the gracious ways, of kindness bred, 
V/ho, smiling, taught us all how well and fair. 
How seemly, that the Good with Grace be wed 
In Christian g-entleness, not harsh or n:'."^'^. 
But sweet and "musical as is Apollo's iute." 

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Theodore M. Barber 

And he, the scholar, the recluse, for whom 

Was erst the high companionship of books. 

The sweet serenity of alcoved gloom.. 

The poet's voice, like that of silver brooks 

Running through pleasant meadows, where might walk 

Plato and Homer, with high-hearted talk. 

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John H. Hardy 

Oh, upright Judge ! to-night I see you here 
As once you stood; with wonder mark again 
Your quick intelligence, your fine good cheer, 
Brave heart triumphant over loss and pain. 
Death's river passed, as pilgrim Great-Heart knew. 
How all the heavenly trumpets sounded high for you ! 

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Abiel Leonard 

O priest of God! for you Heaven's altar glows, 
For you the clear, celestial tapers shine. 
Around you, as for Dante, the White Rose 
Has oped its petals, — poured the glad new wine. 
Ah, from the heavenly ramparts, mark our way. 
Dimly we follow you, through Twilight into Day. 



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Charles E. Putney 

One lately dying — ^though alas ! I deem 
(Myself unfit to praise his high, clear faith — 
Followed his Master, till the darkling stream 
Was bravely crossed — sure that in life or death 
Nothing could separate from the love of Christ. 
So faithfully he kept with God his long last tryst. 

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John H. Leach, Ballard Smith 

What magic spell, what strange, fantastic chance, 
— As tropic heat in some New England flower — 
What Gallic wit, or touch of gay Romance 
Gave to their lives a hint of old-world dower ? 
Ah, who philosophy of charm can tell? 
What savant read the nature of its spell? 

John H. Ward well 

One I would last recall, quiet and shy, 

A soul most sensitive to every touch, 

One doomed, alas ! by that hard destiny 

Which surely waits him who loves, feels too much 

The world's coarse reckonings, — now in happy ways 

He knows the long quiet of the heavenly days. 

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What, then, the message our beloved dead 
Leave for the crowning of our fifty years? 
J^Lsd defpJJt, ^r loss, "■^vre v^jontid^ th?.^ h]ed'^ 
Or the yirgilian sense in things of tears f 
Good ever conquered by the cruel beast 
Of evil ? spectre lurking 'neatli our flowery f ea 

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Ah, not so, brothers ! though worn, old, and few. 
One thrilling word crosses the night's black bars ; 
"Obey the voice at eve", which erst you knew; 
Still ''hitch your wagon to the shining stars." 
Still do the skyey voices call us : Come ! 
Bravely step forward, on your last march home ! 

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Old Dartmouth calls us out of her great Past 
Into the living Present. Answer! Here! 
On each new service, be it slight or vast, 
Send us ! We "greet the unseen with a cheer". 
"The first fine rapture", we may not recover — 
There's plenty more of life when this life's over ! 

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Be as the sentinel standing at his post 

Till the celestial order comes: Relief! 

The western sky is bright with hopes not lost; 

A splendid sunset glows, where pain and grief 

Are turned by alchemy divine to gold. 

Seventy, with hearts of youth, can never now be old ! 

John A.lBellows 



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ROBERT MILLER BOLENIUS, A.M.; M. D. 
Born May 14, 1847, Lancaster, Pa. 

He studied medicine with Dr. Henry Carpenter of Lan- 
caster, Pa., and then entered the medical school of the University 
of Maryland, from which institution he took his degree in 1873. 
He has been a successful practicing physician in Lancaster since 
that time. He was physician of the Lancaster County Alms- 
house, Hospital, and Insane Asylum for several years, one of the 
consulting physicians, 1884-1889, and one of the examining phy- 
sicians for the insane; also consulting physician for the local 
hospitals. From 1887-1902 he was physician to the coroner 
of the city and county of Lancaster. He is also a prominent 
citizen, having served six years in the Common Council, and as 
president of that body, and two years in the Select Council ; also 
on the Board of Health ; and since 1881 on the City School Board, 
in which, since 1887 he has been chairman of the committee on 
text-books and course of instruction, and since 1907, secretary 
of the Board. In 1882 he was a delegate to the State Repub- 
lican Convention. He is a member of Lodge No. 476, Free and 
Accepted Masons, Chapter 43, Commandery 13, secretary of 
the Lancaster Lodge of Perfection 14 degree since 1881, and 
received the 33rd degree in 1910. In 1875 he married Miss Cath- 
erine Mathiot Carpenter, daughter of Dr. Henry Carpenter. 
They have had six children: Emma Miller, Henry Carpenter 
(deceased), Adolphus William, Mary Carpenter, Robert Miller 
(deceased), and Katherine Carpenter. 



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LEWIS BOSS, A. M.; LL.D.; SC.D. 

Born October 26, 1846, Providence, R. I. 
Died October 5, 1912, Albany, N. Y. 

Since 1876 Boss had been Director of the Dudley Observa- 
tory, Albany, N. Y. He was also Professor of Astronomy in 
Union College, Schenectady. His research work in the field of 
Astronomy gave him a world wide reputation. He died October 
5, 1912, leaving one son (Benjamin) a graduate of Harvard, 
and two daughters, Mrs. Harold F. Greene, and Mrs. John 
McElroy. The three children live in Albany. The son suc- 
ceeded his father as Director of the Observatory, and was spoken 
of by those in a position to know, as "the only man who could 
successfully go on with the great work begun by his father." 

The career of our distinguished classmate can be well sum- 
marized in the words of the committee of the trustees of the 
Observatory who were appointed to draw up a fitting tribute to 
his memory. I use this memorial in full. 

"The Dudley Observatory has always been fortunate in its 
Directors and in none more so than in Lewis Boss. He became its 
Director in 1876, and served to the present time. His untimely 
death is a great and irreparable loss to this observatory, to Amer- 
ican Science and to Astronomical Science throughout the world. 
His life was a wonderfully successful one in the best sense and a 
beautiful embodiment of the highest ideal of what the life of 
a scientific investigator should be. It was a light to guide all 
his colleagues in those numerous Scientific associations of which 
he was a member, who aspire to do their full duty. He was a 
man who disdained pecuniary advancement and who refused to 
allow the work of the observatory to be in the slightest degree 
restricted that his salary might be increased. His heart was in 
the work of solving those problems which should in good time 
aid in disclosing the secrets of the universe. He wasted no time 
in glittering generalities of theory or in the dazzling presenta- 
tion of things already known to attract the admiration of his 
fellow men. 

"In addition to numerous important but lesser contributions 
to science, he bent all his energies and all the resources of the 
observatory to his life's work — the unostentatious ascertaining of 
their exact position in space of thousands of the more important 
stars. He established in the southern hemisphere an observatory, 
financed in great part by the Carnegie Institute, in order that the 
main work done in the Dudley Observatory might be more exact. 
He thus laid what must ever be the solid, deep, exact foundation 
on which the super-structure of every sound theoretical work in 

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celestial astronomy shall be based. He lived to see the practical 
completion of this stupendous work, upon which he had ex- 
pended decades of arduous labor. 

"Unusual honors were conferred upon him at home and 
abroad. These tributes he accepted with simplicity, and the dis- 
tinguished part he bore among the leaders in science never pre- 
vented his endeavor to bring to the youth about him some sense 
of the majesty of the heavens upon which his own mind dwelt. 

"Professor Boss was, however, more than an astronomer. 
He was a broad-minded man, who fulfilled all his duties to 
society. A devoted husband, he trained with loving kindness 
his children so that they have become useful and valued mem- 
bers of society. He was interested in and materially aided all 
the humanitarian institutions of Albany. He was always ac- 
tively interested in politics, even being for a short time the editor 
of a daily paper. All these things he found time to do without 
any abatement of his zeal for astronomical investigation. 

"The Trustees of the Dudley Observatory desire to place on 
record this brief minute of their esteem of a man to whom they 
were bound by ties of affection, and to express thus in some 
slight degree their appreciation of his life work. 

"William Gorham Rice, 
Henry Hun, 
James Fenimore Cooper, 

Committee." 

Boss was given the degree of LL.D. by Union; SC.D. by 
Syracuse and Sc.D. by Dartmouth, 1912. 

A letter of considerable length written to the secretary in 
1910 expresses a depth of feeling for his classmates, and an 
earnest desire to attend the approaching reunion. I will quote 
certain passages. 

"I suppose those years we led together were not so unprofit- 
able as the cynic is prone to insist. When the boys occasionally 
drop in on me here, in this out of the way corner, I find myself 
in a more confidential mood with men I have not seen in 
forty years than with valued friends, that I have not known 
half as long. That is why I envy those of our fellows who live 
near together and are seeing each other at short intervals. The 
influences that gathered around us in those college days, have 
gone a long way with me to console me for the lazy, good-for- 
nothing course of life I led during those four years. It isn't 
often I have a night-mare, but a good many I have had grew out 
of the cold sweat of realizing neglected opportunities of those 

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days. Yet, as my children say: *Dad, you ought to be thankful 
it is all over — that time — for if you could get a chance to live it 
over you would probably make a bigger mess of it than you did.' 
"I had a nice call from Drew a few weeks since. I had 
not seen him since 1870, and though I knew him, I probably 
would not have known him had I not been imagining him dur- 
ing all the intervening years, as the big and prosperous-looking 
man he is." 



DANIEL GILE BROCKWAY, M.D. 

Born October 4, 1847, Pomfret, Vt. 
Died April 16, 1914, Lebanon, N. H. 

Dr. Brockway took his medical degree from the University 
of New York February 18, 1873, and in June of that year set- 
tled in Lebanon, where he spent the remainder of his life in 
the practice of his profession. He had secured the confidence 
and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. He had held the office of 
superintendent of schools for three years in the earlier part of 
his professional career. He had secured a good practice, and 
had apparently thoroughly enjoyed his life of professional ac- 
tivity and kindly public service. The Free Press of Lebanon 
speaks of his good citizenship, and of his generous and thought- 
ful consideration, shown primarily to his patients, but also to all 
with whom he came in contact. 

In 1874, he married Miss Fannie E. How, step-daughter 
of Dr. L. B. How, '60, a former lecturer in the Dartmouth 
Medical College. They had no children. Mrs. Brockway sur- 
vives her husband. 



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Daniel G. Brockway 




Francis Brown Courtesy Alumni Magazine 



FRANCIS BROWN, D.D.; LL.D.; D.Litt.(Oxon.) 

Born December 26, 1849, Hanover, N. H. 
Died October 15, 1916, New York 

Of Brown much has been published since his death last 
October, and a lengthy biographical sketch might be produced 
here. It seems best however to let Frank speak for himself as 
he does so fittingly in a letter addressed to me April 28, 1916. 
I reproduce it here with practically no change. 

"The last report (1891) will serve as the starting point. My 
connection with Union Theological Seminary continues to the 
present time and covers now forty-two years as student and 
teacher. 

"My particular field of study, as you know, has been the 
Old Testament, including the Hebrew language. This choice 
is due largely to the learning and enthusiasm of my teacher and 
friend — revered and beloved — Professor Charles Augustus 
Briggs, whose assistant and successor I at length became. At 
his suggestion, in 1882-83, I joined him and Professor S. R. 
Driver, of Oxford, Eng., in undertaking a Lexicon of Biblical 
Hebrew, in name and style the revision of Gesenius' Lexicon, 
which Professor Edward Robinson has introduced to this coun- 
try in translation, but practically a new work. In twenty-three 
years, with some interruptions, I was largely occupied with this 
side by side with my Seminary duties, making many visits to 
England, where the book was printed. It was completed in 1906. 
Both my co-editors have passed away since then. 

"The chief occasion of the interruptions to which I referred 
just now has been controversy, — theological and ecclesiastical. I 
can honestly say that nothing is more distasteful to me than con- 
troversy, and that it has never been of my seeking, but the price 
of avoiding it in 1891-94 and 1897-98 seemed to be acquiesence 
in serious wrong, and the obligation to defend sacred and cher- 
ished convictions has led again to controversy in 1911-15. I 
will not dwell on the points at issue. The main principles in- 
volved have been two : the right to examine and test religious 
facts freely and make reasonable progress in theology, and the 
right of an institution, privately founded and maintained under 
a liberal charter, to be ecclesiastically independent. These have 
been variously involved with each other. The experiences have 
increased my knowledge of the good and the bad in men, my 
sense of the need of patience in life, my belief in time as a sol- 
vent and as an element in progress, and my hope for the world's 
future. 

"Among various trips abroad since my student days and my 
marriage in Germany, and apart from those caused by the 

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Hebrew Lexicon, two were especially interesting to me. One 
was a short one, early in 1905, to attend the dedication of the 
Protestant Cathedral in Berlin, which was marked by imposing 
public ceremonies and court festivities. The other took me to 
Syria and Palestine for a year, 1907-08, on leave of absence 
from the Seminary, when, as Director of the American Archaeol- 
ogical School, I had headquarters in Jerusalem and traveled 
widely through the country with a visit to Egypt. A second visit 
to Syria, Palestine, and Egypt occurred in 1911. 

"My children are all three happily married, and all have 
children of their own, now nine in all, seven of whom are boys. 
My son is Professor of Physics in the Syrian Protestant College, 
Beirut, Syria, who came home on furlough in July, 1914, and is 
detained here by the war. His wife is a daughter of Dr. Phineas 
Sanborn Conner, Dartmouth '59. His oldest son is Francis 
Brown, 3rd. My oldest daughter lives in Canton, China, is the 
wife of a missionary, the Rev. James M. Henry. She, too, is 
now in New York, on furlough. My younger daughter married 
the Rev. Otis S. Barnes, and lives in Bronxville, N. Y. 

"In the summer of 1915 my health gave way, and I am 
devoting the present year to recovery. This accounts for my 
recent absence in Florida, where I greatly regret that I could 
not look up Locke. The prospect of regaining my health is 
very largely due to the unique treatment and the skill of Dr. 
Charles Elihu Quimby, son of our Professor of Mathematics. 

"Our two classmates who have died since our reunion in 
1915 were two with whom I had had close relations. Barber 
and I were classmates at Phillips Academy, Andover, as well as 
in College, but we were thrown together in an especial way im- 
mediately after graduation. We both began teaching in the 
autumn of 1870 in Pittsburgh, Pa., and for a year lived in the 
same house. He was rather a recluse, a notable bibliophile, a 
close and accurate reader, with a very tender and sympathetic 
heart, not always recognized. I should like to know what has 
become of his library, which he gathered and cherished with af- 
fectionate care. I knew his wife, and used to see them both 
when they, occasionally, came to New York. After her death 
he seemed to live more in retirement than ever and with increasing 
ill health naturally traveled less. I have been little in Pittsburgh 
since my two years' teaching there, and never succeeded in finding 
him there, although I tried. I am afraid that, but for his books, he 
would have been lonely in recent years. 

"George Edgell and I were intimate in College and con- 
tinued friends until his death, though divergent occupations and 
interests possessed us in large degree. Thanks both to his wife 
and mine his marriage was a fresh bond between us. I have 

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taken much pleasure in his children (three sons) as they have 
grown up. His most engaging qualities persisted in strength 
until the end. I find myself missing him very much, now that 
he is gone. 

"It was pleasant that so many of us could meet last June. I 
hope all who are now left may be spared for the fiftieth anni- 
versary." 



This sketch may fittingly close with Bellows' deeply sincere 
and beautiful tribute: 

FRANCIS BROWN 
One full of honors — beautiful white soul! 
Has joined the high assembly and the school 
Of saints and sages in the clear, pure* light, 
That like a river of peace through Heaven doth roll. 
Beyond the darknessi of our earthly night. 
Where his dear Master, Christ, Himself doth rule. 

Learned and wise in wisdom of the books, 

A scholar, gentleman, a spirit clear. 

Whose brightness shone from out his gentle looks; 

Not quick to give himself, but, oh! how dear 

When in some rare, high moment we could see 

How deep the sources of that buried life must be! 

Lo ! as I write, the long years slip away. 
The honors from his weary shoulders fall. 
Once more we walk the dear old college way. 
With old, prophetic dreams, and one and all 
Are boys again, with minds aflame for truth. 
And the long thoughts of our high-hearted youth. 

I see him standing, as I saw him then. 

The clear, sound mind, with heart of courtesy. 

We knew him then as now, — a prince of men; 

One who should lead beyond the troubled sea 

Of vexing questions to the higher faith 

In God — rboth here and past the incident of death. 

Hail and farewell, dear friend! the clear, white light 
Of your fine spirit guides us on our way — 
A little, straggling band to wage the fight 
Till the long twilight glimmers into day. 
In thought of thy brave soul, we meet each battering doom. 
Hail and farewell, dear friend ! Wait for us till we come. 

John A. Bellows, 1870. 

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JAMES WILLIAM CHENEY, A.M. 
Born January 22, 1849, Newburyport, Mass. 

"About a quarter of a century ago, by some hook or crook, 
somebody contributed to Who's Who in America a brief, incom- 
plete sketch of my Hfe, which with all its imperfections seems 
to be doomed to a life sentence and all that I can do in re is to 
insist upon reasonable accuracy in the more recent essentials 
which will supplement whatever information may be discoverable 
in this short sketch. 

"My life since graduation is easily divided into two curi- 
ously contrasting periods, namely, migratory (from mid-summer 
1870 to mid-summer, 1888) and fixed (from mid-summer, 1888 
to date). For seventeen years I was a tramp teacher in high 
schools and academies, gathering nothing more substantial than 
pleasant memories of western New York, eastern Ohio, Long 
Island, Brooklyn, southern New Hampshire, northeastern Mas- 
sachusetts, and western and central Pennsylvania. One year, 
closing in mid-summer 1888, was spent in a large business 
house in Williamsport, Pa. Speaking with proper moderation 
especially with reference to financial results, my first real op- 
portunity came to me when, on the first of August, 1888, I en- 
tered government service in Washington, as stenographer and 
typewriter on a small salary, supplemented by some income as 
organist in one of the leading churches and several Masonic 
lodges. Incidentally I may say that my musical proclivities have 
done more for me in Washington than my highest hopes antici- 
pated. Despite the discouraging lack of political pull (for my 
classmates well know that outside of musical circles I was never 
a good mixer), in 1897, I became Librarian of the War Depart- 
ment Library, one of the largest as well as one of the most valu- 
able reference collections in the National Capitol, and remained 
in charge until its unfortunate demise in 1914, when, by a most 
unexpected political-departmental whirlwind, quite characteristic 
of Washington life and so deplorable because of its great injus- 
tice to all concerned, this time-honored institution (born in the 
last decade of the 18th century before the city of Washington 
was and containing 100,000 rare books and pamphlets) was 
ruthlessly torn up by the roots and thrown out simply to gratify 
a passing whim of an official high in authority, who really knew 
nothing about the value of the library, and, of course, 'knew not 
what he did.' Nevertheless the mischief was accomplished, and, 
incidentally, the librarian, like any other man whose occupation 
is gone, was removed to another environment at a lower salary. 
This is a 'southern administration' and a northern Republican 
must endure the 'fortunes of war' with all the philosophy he 

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can muster. Such an unfortunate anti-climax to my profes- 
sional career must be admitted with all candor, but my Yankee 
pluck remains, encouraging me to keep up a brave heart in the 
knowledge that there is still much that is left worthy of my 
profoundest gratitude to Him that doeth all things well. 

"Fortunately this financial set-back was deferred until I 
had just finished some heavy investments in the advanced edu- 
cation of three of my children, one of whom is holding a superior 
position as organist and choirmaster of the First Baptist Church 
of Pittsburgh. The only daughter, now twenty-four, graduated 
'with distinction' from George Washington University two years 
ago, and, after an additional year of postgraduate work in the 
same institution, received her Master's degree in 1915. She is 
now happily connected with the Library of Congress. 

*T lost my first wife in the summer of 1878 and married 
my present wife in 1887. There are four children, all living and 
all musicians of varied attainments. One of them (J.W.C.,Jr=) 
is a professional, holding the eighth Organ Diploma ever con- 
ferred by the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, in 
nearly half a century of its existence. The oldest child, Charlie, 
is the only one by my first wife. 

*T am still playing the church organ, being the oldest active 
organist in the city and good for many years longer. 

"My latch-string is always out to every classmate visiting 
Washington. My address is always in the telephone directory." 

A letter of later date (December 27, 1916) tells of an im- 
provement in his official position, gratifying to him and to his 
friends. 



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WILLIAM HOYT COLGATE 
Born February 2, 1846, New York City 

The Secretary is unable to add any definite and reliable 
information regarding Colgate's doings since the last report. I 
think the last letter for information to the class was addressed 
to Brown in 1894. It came from Hurley, Wis. He had then 
been in Hurley three years, connected with the R. R. Depart- 
ment of the "Superior Iron Mine." 

Several attempts to get a word from him have proved un- 
availing, though my letters, addressed to the Colgate Banking 
Firm, New York, have apparently come into his hands. He is 
probably still living; and probably on the Pacific slope. Talbot 
has seen him within the past five or six years. 



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FREDERIC DANFORTH, (C.S.D.) 

Born February 8, 1848, Gardiner, Me. 
Died June 6, 1913, Squirrel Island, Me., his summer home. 

Frederic Danforth, son of Judge Charles and Julia S. 
(Dinsmore) Danforth, was one of the nine graduates with the 
degree of B.S. in 1870. After graduation he returned to his 
home in Gardiner, Maine, and began his life work as a civil 
engineer. He began at the bottom as an assistant, but rapidly 
worked his way to the top as a locating and construction engineer 
of railroad work in his native state. He was employed either 
in location or construction or both, on the following roads: the 
European and North American Railway (now a part of the 
Maine Central R. R.) ; the Portland and Ogdensburg R. R. (now 
the mountain division of the Maine Central) ; the Shore Line 
R. R. from Bangor to Mt. Desert Ferry (now also a part of the 
Maine Central lines); the Franklin and Megantic R. R. ; the 
Northern Maine R. R. ; the Togus branch of the Maine Central ; 
the Rumf ord Falls and Portland R. R. ; and the Mechanics Falls 
branch of the Maine Central near Auburn. In 1894 he was 
appointed engineer member of the State Railroad' Commission, 
and reappointed in 1897. His long and successful experience as 
a railway engineer eminently qualified him for his work on 
the commission. He was a member of the Gardiner city gov- 
ernment for several years, and mayor for two years. For a 
long time he was trustee of the Gardiner Water District, and 
at the time of his death he was a director of the Gardiner Nation- 
al Bank. Mr. Danforth was married in 1880 to Miss Caroline 
Stevens, who with four children survives him. He was a man 
of quiet tastes and sound judgment, and everywhere respected 
for his character and ability. His two sons are engineers, and 
one of them, Richard Stevens, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1908 
and of the Thayer School in 1909. 



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ADDISON LYMAN DAY 

Born April 29, 1849, Springfield, Mass. 
Died June 25, 1916, St. Louis, Mo. 

Day was probably not well known to most of the class as 
he graduated from the Chandler School, and so has been en- 
rolled with our class only since the independent existence of the 
Chandler School ceased. His whole business life was spent in 
St. Louis and it seems to have been a prosperous one. 

He had been for over twenty-five years in the employ of 
the Hoyt Metal Company, for whom he was at hi^ decease a 
department manager. A card issued by the Company says that 
"by his lovable disposition and kindly manner he had endeared 
himself to all with whom he came in contact." 

Mr. Day was a member of King's Highway Presbyterian 
church, of various Masonic bodies, including the Ancient Scot- 
tish Rite, of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society and 
the Missouri Historical Society, of the St. Louis Orchestra Club, 
the St. Louis Art League, the Missouri Athletic Association, and 
the Sons of the American Revolution. He was very fond of 
music and an effective performer on several instruments. 

He was three times married. March 12, 1872,- he was mar- 
ried in Des Moines, Iowa, to Carrie Emma, daughter of Gardner 
Walker and Marcia Ann (Clark) Dewey of Hanover, N. H., 
who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 6, 1886. Four children 
of this marriage survive. September 14, 1886, he married Emma 
Gardner Cunningham of New York city, who died June 7, 1898, 
at Arlington, N. J. The third marriage, on April 29, 1915, was 
to Katherine Ann Miller of St. Louis, who survives him. 

He showed much interest in our reunions; though living so 
far away he was with us both in 1910 and 1915. He seemed 
thoroughly to enjoy both gatherings. His young wife, whom he 
had married only a few months before, accompanied him on the 
last visit. His last illness began in November with a severe at- 
tack of grippe ; and though he, rallied sufficiently to be in his 
office somewhat between January and March, his disease in- 
creased and became seriously complicated with other ailments, 
until it worked its fatal result on June 25 — one year almost to 
day after the ending of his visit in Hanover. 



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JOSIAH WEARE DEARBORN, A.M., B.D. 

Born December 1, 1848, Andover, N. H. 
Died January 19, 1894, Watertown, Mass. 

He studied theology at the Boston University, 1870-73, was 
ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was pastor, 
successively, in Franklin, N. H., and in Nahant, Marblehead, 
Lynn, Everett, Stoneham, Boston and Watertown, Mass. His 
last pastorate began in April, 1893. In September, symptoms of 
disease appeared and increased in severity, until in November 
he was compelled to cease preaching. An examination revealed 
the presence of cancer in the stomach, which sapped his strength. 
He did not suffer, but grew steadily weaker until he peacefully 
passed away. 

He was married at Metheun, Mass., December 3, 1874, to 
Miss M. B. Dinsmore. They had three sons, Walter Fenno, 
born July 19, 1878; James Marshall, April 13, 1880; Arthur 
Kent, May 27, 1886. 

''Dearborn was a man of unusual gifts. His tastes led him 
toward scholarship, toward literature and toward art, and he 
cultivated all of them, as opportunity offered, with the freedom 
of a rich nature. He enjoyed travel. He loved the water, the 
woods and the hills. He was full of genial humor, and at the 
same time his convictions were clear and vital. He was de- 
voted to the work of his calling, and took a large view of its 
opportunities. His most intense life was lived in its practical 
duties. He would have chosen to be remembered as a faithful 
Christian minister. He was one of the most unostentatious of 
men. The cheerful, steadfast courage with which for two 
months he awaited certain death, was heroic, although he would 
himself have been the last to call it so."* 

Farnham says of him: "His was a glorious triumph of 
faith over sickness and pain." 



*Quoted from obituary notice by Brown. 



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REUBEN FLETCHER DEARBORN, A.M., M.D. 

Born May 13, 1850, Andover, N. H. 
Died January 19, 1913 

Your Secretary can add little to what was published in the 
report of 1891. He continued to practice medicine in Lynn up 
to, or near, the time of his death. Of his two children, the son, 
Elbridge, died in 1916, and the daughter, Pauline, (Mrs. G. A. 
Blachford), was, as late as last November, living in Toronto, 
Ont., 101 Pembroke St. Dearborn's wife died about twenty years 
ago. The daughter above referred to and a daughter of his son 
are the only survivors of his family. 



Cheney writes (December 27, 1916) the following lines 
regarding Dearborn : "I wish I could help you to any appreciable 
extent in the sketch of 'Secundus' Dearborn. I saw little of 
him after the death of his charming wife. He made me a short 
visit ten years ago, when I learned that he was running two 
offices, one in Lynn, and the other in Boston; and that he was 
making quite a fad of edible mushrooms, being considered a lead- 
ing authority on the subject in Lynn and vicinity." 



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IRVING WEBSTER DREW, A.M. \ii^ J'^U\* /C^ffZL 

Born January 8, 1845, Colebrook, N. H.^ TH&^CJ^JLih >l"l' 

Drew speaks for himself in the following sketch: \J 

"September 6, 1870, I went to Lancaster, New Hampshire, 
and entered the law office of Ray & Ladd. October 31, 1870, 
Mr. Ladd was appointed by the Governor a member of the 
Supreme Court of New Hampshire. I remained with Mr. Ray, 
reading law and doing such legal work as he gave me to do. Mr. 
Ray was a prominent lawyer and had a large business. I was 
admitted to the bar in November, 1871. January 1, 1872, Mr. 
Ray made me a member of his firm. Ray & Drew continued 
in business until May 16, 1873, when Mr. Heywood became a 
member of the firm. The firm of Ray, Drew & Heywood con- 
tinued until May 16, 1876. Then Mr. Heywood retired and 
Chester B. Jordan became a partner. Mr. Ray was an able law- 
yer and an ardent Republican. In 1880 he was elected to Con- 
gress. 

"The firm of Ray, Drew & Jordan continued until January 1, 
1882, when Philip Carpenter, son of Chief Justice Alonzo P. 
Carpenter, became a member under the firm name of Ray, Drew, 
Jordan & Carpenter. Mr. Ray retired from the firm in 1884 
and the firm name became Drew, Jordan & Carpenter. Mr. 
Carpenter moved to New York in 1885. The firm name became 
Drew & Jordan and so continued until William P. Buckley was 
taken as a partner January 1, 1893, under the firm name of 
Drew, Jordan & Buckley. Merrill Shurtleff became a partner 
January 1, 1901, and the firm name was Drew, Jordan, Buckley 
& Shurtleff until the decease of Mr. Buckley, January 10, 1906. 
In March, 1906, George F. Morris became a member of the 
firm. The firm of Drew, Jordan, Shurtleff & Morris continued 
until Mr. Jordan withdrew from the firm January 1, 1910. Drew, 
Shurtleff & Morris was the firm name until Eri C. Oakes be- 
came a member of the firm in 1914. Since then the name is 
Drew, Shurtleff, Morris & Oakes. 

"Our business has been general. We have usually worked 
for defendants. We have been counsel for the Berlin Mills 
Company since I went into practice. I was counsel for George 
Van Dyke, a large lumber and land operator, and the lumber 
company which he operated since 1872. I have been counsel 
for the International Paper Company since its organization in H 

1898. I was counsel for the Boston, Concord & Montreal Rail- [ 

road until it became a part of the Concord & Montreal Railroad ; 

and I have been counsel for the Boston & Maine Railroad since ^ 

it has operated the Concord & Montreal Railroad. I have been 

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counsel for the Maine Central Railroad since 1889. I have 
been counsel for the Grand Trunk Railway from 1872 to 1887 
and from 1904 to date. I have been counsel for J. E. Henry & 
Sons for many years. I have been counsel for the Barron, Mer- 
rill & Barron Hotel Company since it was organized and was 
counsel for A. T. and O. F. Barron, hotel proprietors, since 1872. 
The business of our office has been quite a good deal scattered. 
I have done law business in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, 
Massachusetts, and New York. 

^'During the last twenty years my personal work has been 
quite largely outside of New Hampshire. I was counsel for the 
Glen Manufacturing Company which established a prosperous 
pulp and paper business in Berlin, New Hampshire. It sold its 
business to the International Paper Company. I assisted in the 
organization of the new company. I have been counsel for the 
Odell Manufacturing Co. several years and for several insurance 
companies. 

"In 1887 the Upper Coos Railroad was built by George Van 
Dyke, six other men and myself. Six of us aided in the building 
of the Hereford Railroad in 1888 and 1889. I have been a 
director of the Upper Coos Railroad since it was built and presi- 
dent since 1909. I have been counsel for the Upper Coos Rail- 
road since it was built. This railroad was leased to the Maine 
Central in 1900 and a railroad was built from North Stratford 
to Quebec Junction which connected the Upper Coos Railroad 
and Hereford Railroad with the Maine Central Railroad. This 
gave the Maine Central Railroad a through line to Quebec by 
using the Quebec Central Railroad from Dudswell Junction to 
Quebec. 

'T have been a trustee of the Lancaster Public Library since 
it was established. I was major of the Third New Hampshire 
Regiment of Militia when it was first organized. I was state 
Senator in 1883. I have been one of the directors of the Lan- 
caster National Bank for many years. I have been President 
of the Siwooganock Guaranty Savings Bank since 1891. I was 
a delegate to the Democratic National Convention held in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, in 1880, and a delegate to the Democratic Con- 
vention in 1892 and 1896. I voted the democratic ticket be- 
cause of the treatment of the South at the close of the Civil War. 
As soon as I became interested in business life I found that a 
tariff law was necessary for the proper maintenance of the busi- 
ness conditions of our country. My interest in these questions 
increased each year until I became a firm believer in a tariff 
that would shut out to a large degree, the foreign, cheaper made 
goods to the end that our mills could be run all the time and 

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employment could be given to all our working people. In 1896 
when Mr. Bryan and his associates took possession of the 
National Democratic Convention and injected the financial her- 
esy of coinage of silver at the rate of 16 to 1, and other unwise 
and dangerous attacks upon safe government, into the platform 
of the Democratic party, I, with six other members of the dele- 
gation omitted to vote after that platform was adopted. I have 
since acted with the Republican party. 

"My business has taken me away from the Lancaster office 
a good part of the time for the last twenty years. We have 
always had men in our office who could do satisfactorily all 
business that came to us ; and we believed that the sure way to 
success was to devote ourselves to the business of our clients. 

''November 4, 1869, I was married to Caroline Hatch Mer- 
rill of Colebrook, New Hampshire. She came to Lancaster in 
1871. February 20, 1872, a son, Paul Drew, was born to us. 
He died October 1, 1872. Neal Bancroft Drew was born Sep- 
tember 9, 1873. He died May 7, 1905. Pitt Fessenden Drew 
was Born August 27, 1875. He is a lawyer in practice in Bos- 
ton. Sarah Maynard Drew was born December 19, 1876. She 
married Edward Kimball Hall of Newtonville, Massachusetts. 
My son, Pitt, has two daughters, five and three years of age. 
My daughter, Sallie, has three children, two sons and a 
daughter." 



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GEORGE STEPHEN EDGELL, A.M. 

Bom July 2, 1847, St. Louis, Mo. 
Died October 8, 1915, New York City. 

He was the son of Stephen Madison and Louise (Chamber- 
lain) Edgell. He fitted for college in the public schools of St. 
Louis. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi. 

Immediately after graduation Mr. Edgell went into busi- 
ness with his father in St. Louis as a member of the firm of 
S. M. Edgell and Company, produce and commission merchants. 
After three years he left this business to organize the St. Louis 
Bolt and Iron Company, of which he was the treasurer, as also 
of its successor, the Tudor Iron and Steel Company, until in 1887 
he became its vice-president. In 1887 he removed to New York, 
and became vice-president (and later president) of the Elmira, 
Cortland, and Northern Railroad Company, and treasurer of the 
Long Island Railroad Company. January 1, 1890, he entered 
the Corbin Banking Company, of which his father-in-law was 
the head. He was also president of the Manhattan Beach Com- 
pany, which built large hotels at that seaside resort, and an 
officer in the Blue Mountain Forest Association, the American 
Surety Co., and the Marine Railroad. In 1907 he retired from 
active business, and had since passed much of his time at his 
country home at Newport, N. H. 

April 30, 1879, Mr. Edgell was married to Isabella, daughter 
of Austin Corbin of Brooklyn, N. Y., who survives him. They 
have had three sons, Corbin, Stephen Maurice, and George Har- 
old, all of whom are living. The youngest, Harold, is a pro- 
fessor in the Department of Fine Arts, at Harvard — his alma 
mater. Your Secretary has heard flattering reports of his suc- 
cess. He, at this writing (July, 1917) is in Military Training 
at Dartmouth, and your Secretary has found him a most inter- 
esting young man to know and meet in social ways. The second 
son lives in Denver; the oldest, I think, on the Pacific slope. 

A business associate who knew Edgell intimately for over 
twenty-five years, says of him: "He certainly was one of the 
salt of the earth." 

Brown writes of him as follows: 

"George Edgell and I were intimate in College and con- 
tinued friends until his death, though divergent occupations and 
interests possessed us in large degree. Thanks both to his wife 
and mine his marriage was a fresh bond between us. I have 
taken much pleasure in his children (three sons) as they have 
grown up. His most engaging qualities persisted in strength 
until the end. I find myself missing him very much, now that 
he is gone." 

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George S. Edgell 



CHARLES EDWARD EMERSON (C.S.D.) 
Born October 11, 1846, Nashua, N. H. 

No response comes from Emerson. Your Secretary lived 
in the same city with him (Nashua, N. H.) sixteen years and 
saw him almost daily. I have every reason to believe that he 
still lives, and at the same address — 5 Fletcher St., Nashua. 

Emerson seems to have been living in a rather leisurely 
way, employed somewhat intermittently in his vocation of en- 
gineering. 

He is married but I think has no children. 



SCHUYLER CHAMBERLAIN FARNHAM, A.M., B.D. 

Born December 25, 1845, Lowell, Mass. 
Died November 12, 1916, Wyoming, N. Y. 

Farnham gives the following condensed chronicle of his 
life from 1892 to March 24, 1915: 

"In '92 I moved to Kanona, N. Y., to supply the place of 
the pastor who died suddenly before the first Sunday of the 
year '93. I was pastor at Painted Post, N. Y., '94, '95, '96 ; at 
Knoxville, Pa., '97-1900; at Hornellsville, 1901; at Webster, 
'02, '03, '04 ; at East Bloomfield, '05 ; at Alabama, '06 ; Alexander, 
'07-'ll. The last five places are all in New York. In 1912 I 
was retired and built a home at Wyoming, N. Y. Since then 
have been busy preaching and lecturing; and teaching for a part 
of three winters in a Bible school in Rochester, N. Y. On 
December 26 my heart suddenly gave out and I have been sick 
ever since. Am able to be up and about but am liable to go at 
any minute. Trust I am ready for the summons of my Lord." 

Farnham served as preacher and pastor in the Methodist 
Episcopal church from 1872, when he received his degree of 
B.D., from Boston University, to the time of his retirement in 
1912, excepting two years, 1875-1877, which he spent in study 
at B. U. School of Oratory, and six years following 1882 when 
he lived on his own farm in Batavia, N. Y. From 1888 to 1892 
the date at which his chronicle begins he was also living an out- 
door life on his own acres at Hubbardston, Mass., but was 
preaching regularly. 

His widow is living, and three children, two sons, Ralph S. 
and Robert F., both married and living in Rochester, N. Y., and 
a daughter, also married and living in Wyoming. They lost three 
children in infancy. 

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CHANNING FOLSOM, A.M., Dartmouth, 1885 
Born June 1, 1848, Newmarket, N. H. 

Folsom gives a brief summary of his professional activities 
as teacher and superintendent — an honorable career which cul- 
minated in the state superintendency for the six years, 1898- 
1904. It was his force and independence, I am led to believe 
— in a word his very success — which made his term compara- 
tively short. Your Secretary was in charge of one of the high 
schools of New Hampshire during this period, and saw **Chan- 
ning" often. He heard his direct, sensible, vigorous and humor- 
ous speeches, always in the interest of school, betterment, and 
considered his administration of his important office distinctly 
successful. 

Folsom's autobiographic sketch follows: 

"I was superintendent of Dover, N. H., schools from '82 
to '98. I was State Superintendent of Public Instruction from 
'98 to 1904; during this service, I aided in writing some im- 
portant legislation into the statutes of the State, notably the law 
establishing a minimum school year, district supervision, and 
State aid for the poorer towns ; the law providing for enforce- 
ment of the child-labor laws ; and that throwing open the doors 
of the high schools and academies to every child regardless of 
his residence. 

"In 1905 I moved to my farm in this town where I have 
since resided, cultivating land which has been in the family since 
1674. 

"From 1906 to 1909 I was district school superintendent of 
Newmarket and two adjacent towns. 

"For three years past I have served as deputy sheriff for 
Rockingham County. 

"My older son died in 1914; the younger, Arthur Channing, 
is in San Francisco; my three girls are married; I have two 
grandchildren, Elizabeth L. Towle and Eleanor D. Towle." 

He was given the degree of A.B. in 1902, and was enrolled 
with the class of '70. He was one of the fourteen who met for 
our last reunion. 



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Channing Folsom 



CHARLES EDWIN HALL, M.D. 

Born December 11, 1847, Hanover, N. H. 
Died Npvember 7, 1909, Greenville, N. H. 

He received his Bachelor's degree in 1872. 

The Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel of November 12, 1909, has 
the following obituary notice, v^hich is sufficiently biographical 
to serve as the substance of this sketch. 

*The citizens of Greenville, N. H., were deeply shocked by 
the news of the sudden death at his home, Sunday evening, from 
apoplexy, of Dr. Charles E. Hall. Dr. Hall was apparently in 
his customary health, Sunday, and attended to his usual duties 
until supper time. Soon afterward he suflfered the stroke from 
which he died within a few hours. Dr. Hall had been for 36 
years a resident of Greenville and was one of its best known and 
most popular citizens. His loss will be sadly felt by all classes 
in the community. For many years he had been sought out by 
every one in need of, counsel, sympathy or a helping hand. 

"Charles E. Hall was born in Hanover, N. H., December 
11, 1847. His father was Lewis Hall, afterward a resident of 
Greenville, and his mother Fidelia Spencer. He received his 
education at the public schools of Hanover, Kimball Union acad- 
emy, New Ipswich Appleton academy, Williams college, Dart- 
mouth college, from w^hich he was graduated in the class of 
1870, the New Hampshire Medical college and the Medical de- 
partment of the University of New York, from which, in 1873, 
he received the degree of M.D. After his graduation he began 
the practice of medicine in Greenville. In 1874, he opened the 
Greenville drug store and has continued in its active manage- 
ment ever since. 

"Dr. Hall has been prominent in political affairs. In 1889, 
he represented the town of Greenville in the New Hampshire 
house of representatives, where he was chairman of the commit- 
tee on normal school. In 1890, he was elected senator from the 
15th New Hampshire district, becoming chairman of the com- 
mittee on education. He has filled many offices in the town. 
From 1887 to 1891 he was town treasurer and again continually 
from 1897 until his death. He was a member of Souhegan 
lodge, F. & A. M., and of King Solomon chapter of Milford, 
N. H. ; a member and past grand of Dunster Hill lodge, I.O.O.F., 
of which he had been treasurer for thirteen years, and of Ivy 
Rebekah lodge. He was vice president of Mason Village Sav- 
ings bank, and also a member of the New Hampshire Pharma- 
ceutical association. 

"Under the pseudonym of 'Quilldriver,' Dr. Hall has for 
many years been the Greenville correspondent of the Fitchburg 

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Sentinel, and also for the Nashua Telegraph. The people of 
this district have learned to look with expectation for his terse, 
witty comments on the events of local interest." 

In 1895, in a letter to Brown — then Secretary — Hall writes 
a few lines so characteristic, and really significant that I repro- 
duce them here: 

"We are living a peaceful uneventful life here. If reading 
the religious paper and Ben Hur, voting the republican ticket, 
and using neither liquor nor tobacco count for anything on the 
ledger of the Great Hereafter, I hope to be 'in the swim* with 
the good boys of 1870." 



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John H. Hardy 



JOHN HENRY HARDY 
Born February 2, 1847, Hollis, N. H. 

Hardy gives the mere statistics of his legal and judicial 
career in the following autobiographic sketch. These bare facts 
might be interspersed with much in the way of explanation and 
comment going to show how the class of 70 has contributed 
largely to the public service in the state of Massachusetts, 
through thd legal ability and scrupulous integrity of this hon- 
ored classmate. 

Your Secretary thinks he can assume that the members 
of the class are quite fully acquainted with Hardy's life work — 
his twenty-one years of service in the Superior Court; and he 
has the impression that the Judge's personality is better known 
to his classmates than that of the large majority of '70 men. 
He would like to bear his own testimony to the enjoyment he 
has had in occasionally meeting his genial and hospitable friend. 
Especially delightful was an evening spent in his beautiful Arl- 
ington home, with Abbott to bear us company, and with Mrs. 
Hastings to share in the hospitality which Hardy and his wife 
so cordially and generously dispensed. It was an experience 
which I shall remember with peculiar pleasure. 

Hardy narrates as follows : 

"John H. Hardy studied law at Marlborough, Massachu- 
setts, at the Harvard Law School and in a Boston office. Was 
admitted to the bar in 1872, and practiced in Boston until his 
appointment as Justice of the Municipal Court of Boston in 
1885. From 1872 to 1874, he was in partnership with George 
W. Morse, and in 1884 and 1885 with Samuel J. Elder and 
Thomas W. Proctor (Dartmouth 79) under the style of Hardy, 
Elder & Proctor. For three years before 1885, he was Trial 
Justice for Middlesex County. In May, 1885, he was appointed 
Justice of the. Municipal Court in Boston, and held that position 
until his promotion to the Superior Court in September, 1896, 
which latter position he now holds. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts Legislature from the Arlington District in 1884. 

"August 30, 1871, he married Anne Jane Conant, of Little- 
ton, Massachusetts, who died on April 1, 1912. On June 16, 
1913, he married Ada McNab, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. 

"By his first marriage were born three children: Harry B., 
born December 11, 1872, died August 10, 1873; John Henry, 
born June 10, 1874; Horace Dexter, born February 28, 1877, who 
graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1899, and died March 
18, 1910.'^ 



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LEMUEL SPENCER HASTINGS, B.D., Yale 
Born September 26, 1848, St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

Since 1891 your secretary's uneventful career runs as fol- 
lows. He had become principal of the Nashua (N. H.) High 
School in 1889, and held that position until 1905. 

The year 1905-06 he devoted to freedom and travel, after 
twenty-eight years of continuous work as high school principal. 
The travel was a European trip, long hoped for, but repeatedly 
deferred. It was a great joy. He was accompanied by his wife. 
In September, 1906, he was asked to take up work in the Col- 
lege, in the department of English, more specifically the sub- 
department of public speaking. 

He has continued in this work to the present time, and has 
one year more before the inexorable rule of retirement takes 
effect. 

In 1913 he built a home for himself on the street now called 
Rope Ferry Road, but known in our college days as Stump Lane. 
For thirty-five years he had been living as a tenant at will, though 
with few changes. In summer time, however, he lived on his 
own acres. In 1892 he bought a farm beautifully situated in 
Enfield, N. H., and here with his family spent the long vacations. 
He still owns this place but it is now used chiefly as the summer 
place of his son Harold. 

Such is the brief record of my life and work to date. Where 
I shall be, and what doing a year from now, — apart from the 
uncertainties to which all our lives are subject — I cannot well 
predict. 

As to what has been accomplished in these twenty-five or 
thirty years I feel, naturally, that others can speak more intel- 
ligently than I. Friends, highly valued, have given emphatic 
expression of approval of my work in both Claremont and 
Nashua. And there are many good people in both places who 
are among my best friends- Whatever may be said in praise or 
blame of my career as a public school teacher, it is by this that 
I would prefer to be judged. My work here in the College — 
pleasant as it has been, and quite worth the while, as I trust — is 
only a supplement, not the main thing. It has been comparatively 
free from care and responsibility, and the life here has been 
delightful. Our household consists of myself, my wife and 
my daughter. The daughter, a graduate of Smith College, 
teaches in the Hanover high school. 

My two sons are engaged, the older, Harold Ripley, in 
teaching, the younger, Alfred Bryant, in forestry. They are 
married and have five children. Harold has a daughter and two 

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sons ; Alfred has a son and a daughter. Harold is on the faculty 
of Hamilton College (Clinton, N. Y.) ; Alfred is Assistant State 
Forester for New Hampshire, now Acting Forester in the ab- 
sence of Mr, Hirst for service in Great Britain. 

My classmates know that I studied for the ministry, and 
received the degree of B.D. from Yale in 1876. I wish them 
also to know that I have not been wholly recreant to my initial 
choice. I have done not a little preaching in the last twenty-five 
years- During the past year, for example, I have "supplied" in 
this and nearby places, sometimes in the Episcopal Church (my 
own), sometimes in churches of other names, some fifteen or 
twenty times. I consider the minister's calling to be the highest 
and noblest for service to one's fellow men. It troubles me to 
see so few of our Dartmouth graduates entering it. 

Perhaps your secretary is making his own story too long. 
But he feels that those of his classmates have for the most part 
been too brief. He knows from experience, as the sketches have 
come to his hand, the interest that is felt by a '70 man as he 
reads the details of a classmate's experiences in all this long 
period when college ambitions and dreams have been gradually 
transformed into realities. 



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LUCIUS RANDOLPH HAZEN, A.M. 

Born February 6, 1848, Berlin, Vt. 
Died March 21, 1912, Middletown, Conn. 

He was the son of Rev. Austin Hazen, and was one of a 
family of 11 children. Four of his brothers entered the minis- 
try, one of them spending 27 years in India in missionary work, 
and another having a very long pastorate in Northfield, Vt. On 
his mother's side he was a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers 
who came to this country in the Mayflower. 

Hazen was in business in Middletown, Conn., from the time 
of his graduation till his death. The following data are taken 
from the Penny Press, of Middletown, March 22, 1912: 

"He was at first employed by George G. McLean who. was 
stationer and bookseller, and later purchased the business in 
company with John A. Sumner, and the firm was Sumner & 
Hazen for some time. Later, Mr. Hazen purchased the interest 
of Mr. Sumner and had since conducted the business alone, 
making of it one of the best known stationery and book stores 
in the state. Mr. Hazen was deeply interested in the work of 
the North church, of which his brother is pastor, and had been 
a deacon there since 1877, making him senior deacon of the 
church. He was also active in the work of the Sunday school. 
Mr. Hazen was one of the oldest merchants on the street, rank- 
ing with Charles A. Pelton, John T. Walsh, Lyman Payne and 
W. J. Coughlin. The stand conducted by him has been used as 
a book store beyond the memory or any one in business at the 
present time. He was a member of the Middletown Business 
Men's association. He was a man of fine character and many 
likeable qualities, and made warm friends with every one who 
knew him. He had established a reputation for honorable, up- 
right business among his fellow townsmen and his loss will be 
deeply felt by a large circle of friends. He was married on 
February 16, 1875, to Maria Humphrey, of Jericho, Vermont." 

Their five children, two sons and three daughters, men- 
tioned in our Report of '91, were all living at the time of his 
death and are still living as far as your Secretary knows. The 
older son, Edwin H., was graduated at Dartmouth in 1908. The 
next year he was studying for the ministry and is probably now 
actively engaged in that profession — the traditional vocation of 
his family. 



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EDMUND PERLEY HEMENWAY, (C.S.D.) 

Born June 11, 1846, Gilsum, N. H. 
Died January 28, 1913 

His preparation for the Chandler Scientific Department was 
obtained in the public schools at Springfield, Mass., where his 
home was at the time. In College, he was a member of the Phi 
Zeta Mu fraternity, now Sigma Chi. His occupation for some 
years after graduation was\ civil engineering, in which he was 
engaged in San Domingo, British Columbia, and various parts 
of the United States. Later he developed into mechanical de- 
signing and the construction of machinery for special purposes. 
For the last twenty years his business has been in Boston. He 
died January 28, 1913, and was buried in the family cemetery at 
Gilsum, N. H. 



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HERMON HOLT 
Born September 7, 1845, Woodstock, Vt. 

The following autobiographic sketch tells very briefly the 
story of Holt's life to date: 

Hermon Holt read law and began practice at Claremont, 
N. H., in 1873 where he has since lived. October 6, 1875, he 
married Miss Clara Elizabeth Farwell of Claremont. They 
have four children: Hermon, born November 14, 1876; Clara 
Farwell, born May 22, 1879; Frances Glidden, born June 7, 
1881 ; and Marion Elizabeth, born September 19, 1886. 

Hermon Holt, jr., was graduated from Dartmouth in the 
class of 1897 and from Harvard Law School in the class of 
1901 and has since been in practice as a lawyer in Boston. He 
married Marian V. Wright, daughter of Commodore Edward 
Wright of U. S. Navy; resides at Newton Center. They have 
one child, Hermon Holt, 3rd, born June 22, 1915. 

Clara married Edward K. Woodworth of) Concord, N. H., 
a graduate of Dartmouth class 1897 and of Harvard Law 
School class 1900. He is a lawyer and member of the firm of 
Streeter, Desmond, Woodworth and SuUoway. They have three 
children.* 

Frances married Henry C. Hawkins, Jr., of Fall River, 
Mass., a graduate of Harvard class of 1901. He is treasurer 
of Claremont Savings Bank. They live at Claremont and have 
two children. 

Holt was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature in 
1889-1890 and of the State Senate in 1894 and 1895. 

He has done what he regarded as his share of work on the 
Stevens High School committee and on the Town School Board, 
and has served many years as vestryman and warden of Trinity 
Church in Claremont. 

Since 1907 he has been president of Claremont Savings 
Bank. Too constant application resulted in utter failure of 
health in 1903 and he was obliged to abandon professional work, 
since which time he has spent the winters at the old home 
which they have occupied since marriage and summers they 
live on a farm out of town where the air is free from smoke 
and dust. By keeping very busy doing nothing, living largely 
out of doors, sleeping always in rooms with from four to twelve 
windows, all open at all times, he succeeds in keeping alive in 
spite of the verdict of community and physicians that he would 
never see 1904, which existence he says is not very valuable to 
himself nor to the public, but he is unwilling to relinquish it. 



*Mrs. Woodworth has died since the above was put in print. 
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Hermon Holt 



AARON PORTER HUGHES (C.S.D.) 

Born February 20, 1849, Nashua, N. H. 
Died March 15, 1901, Nashua, N. H. 

Your secretary saw Hughes very frequently during the 
years 1890-1901, as we were both living in the same city. And 
yet I must confess to a very superficial acquaintance with him, 
and to very slight knowledge of his personal history. I do not 
think his health was ever robust, and his obligations to his mother 
seem to have determined his life-time residence in Nashua. His 
brother "Js-^^" — '68 — writes that Porter spent his entire life with 
his mother. He also adds that for about fifteen years after 
graduation he travelled extensively as advertiser, in California, 
Oregon, Virginia, and other states. He did occasional work in 
civil engineering. The older brother pays the following tribute 
to the younger brother's character: "I never knew of Porter's 
having an enemy, and on my return to New England in 1901 
my best introduction was — 'Porter Hughes' brother.* " 

He was a 32nd degree Mason and enthusiastic in Masonic 

work. 
* 



FRANKLIN POOR JOHNSON (C.S.D.) 
Born February 14, 1849, Manchester, N. H. 

Johnson has not replied to the Secretary's letters, but he is 
undoubtedly still living in Manchester. The General Catalogue 
gives his employment as that of Merchant. 



*I find no data at hand regarding our C.S.D. men except that in 
the General Catalog of 1910, and obituary and other notices in the 
Alumni Magazine. 

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JOHN HOWARD JOHNSTON, M.S.. (C.S.D.) 

Born August 19, 1850, Bath, N. H. 
Died May 10, 1913, Lima, Peru. 

The following sketch is taken from the Alumni Magazine 
of June, 1913 : 

"After graduation he was engaged in civil engineering in 
Massachusetts and Connecticut for a few months and in March, 
1871 sailed for Peru in the service of Henry Meiggs, the famous 
American contractor and engineer, who built the government 
railroads in Peru and Chile and also various privately owned 
railroads in the former country. Mr. Johnston was engaged for 
years in the construction of railroads in the Cordilleras, and 
carried through much important and extremely difficult engi- 
neering work in the high ranges. He was an able engineer of 
versatile talents and a marked inventive faculty. 

"He had great natural energy and unusual executive power, 
so that he was entrusted by his employers with heavy responsi- 
bilities and often had large bodies of men at work under him. 
After the completion of the Peruvian railroads, Mr, Johnston 
settled in Lima and engaged in various industrial enterprises 
which brought him considerable wealth. He made occasional 
visits to the United States, and of late had spent much time in 
Europe. 

"June 12, 1877, he was married to Martha B. Childs of 
Cleveland, Ohio, who died some years since. A second wife, an 
English lady, survives him, with two young children, a boy and 
a girl." 



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Abiel Leonard 



ABIEL LEONARD, A.M., D.D. 

Born June 26, 1848, Fayette, Mo. 
Died December 3, 1903, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

From 1873 to 1888 he served as rector in Sedalia, Mo., St. 
Louis, and Hannibal, Mo. From 1888 until his death he was 
bishop of Nevada and Utah, with his residence in Salt Lake 
City. 

He married Miss Flora T. Thompson of Sedalia, October 
21, 1875. They had six children, four daughters and two sons. 
The older of the two sons died in early childhood, of scarlet 
fever; the other five children and the widow are still living, as 
far as your Secretary knows. Talbot tells me that Mrs. Leonard 
has since her husband's death lived in Los Angeles. 

Leonard's life work, although he died in his prime, was, 
I am sure, a large success — a success in the truest sense. I can 
heartily second Brown's estimate as given in the obituary notice 
sent to the class December, 1903. From this I quote as follows : 

"He had been Missionary Bishop of Nevada and Utah 
since January, 1888, and 1898 Western Colorado and the south- 
western corner of Wyoming were added to his jurisdiction. His 
residence was at Salt Lake City, 'Salt Lake' being the title of 
his diocese. It was large and difficult, and in its administration 
his sterling qualities were clearly shown. He was devoted, ef- 
ficient, cheerful, meeting the taxing emergencies of his position 
resolutely and without display. To some who met him on his 
occasional visits to the East he seemed less and less given to 
demonstration, though always affectionate and loyal. His war- 
fare against peculiar forms of evil was vigorous but never bitter. 
He cared little for sudden and transient successes. He was 
much concerned to build up institutions which should work after 
him. 

"In the prime of life, at the height of his usefulness, amid 
labors in which he never spared himself, he was seized with 
typhoid fever, and after three weeks' illness in St. Mark's Hos- 
pital, Salt Lake City, his life came to an end. Our class has 
had no better man, and none more serviceable, — no one missed 
by more people who respected and loved him, and depended 
upon him." 



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CALVIN WINFIELD LEWIS 
3orn October 27, 1846, East Conway, N. H. 

I have had several communications from Lewis regarding 
himself and other members of the class. He. has shown much 
interest in gathering information of certain men among the 
more difficult to be got at. It is to be regretted that his account 
of himself is so short. Such as it is, I must be content with it: 

"Calvin W. Lewis, from the time of the latest of the pre- 
vious class reports (1890), continued on the Boston Herald's 
staff of writers till the autumn of 1893, when he retired from 
journalistic work. Since that time he has livedo in virtual re- 
tirement, though he has done something in real estate and is 
still doing something in that line. With the exception of the 
three years from 1902 to 1905, when he resided in Dunstable, 
Mass., he lived in Boston from 1890 till December, 1910, when 
he removed to Brookline, Mass., where he has since resided. 
He recently purchased a place in the village of Hopkinton, 
Mass., and intends to take up his abode there in the near fu- 
ture." 



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Eugene O. Locke 



EUGENE OLIN LOCKE 
Born February 20, 1850, Stanstead, Can. 

A good account of Locke's long and useful career as a 
United States official, was published in a Jacksonville paper, of 
December 30, 1913, the date of his retirement from office. It 
will serve well for his biographical sketch. 

"Following forty-one years and ten months of faithful and 
uninterrupted service as Clerk of the United States Court for 
the Southern District of Florida, Hon. Eugene O. Locke, service 
senior of all Federal court clerks by more than two years, closes 
his official career tomorrow. Mr. Locke will resume the practice 
of law, having secured Rooms 1201 and 1202, Heard National 
Bank Building, for offices. 

"The veteran clerk was appointed by President Grant, March 
4, 1872, Key West at that time being headquarters of the South- 
ern District of Florida. He succeeded his brother. Judge James 
W. Locke, who served as clerk from 1866 to 1872, and then 
went on the bench. Upon the recent retirement Judge Locke 
was the oldest Federal judge in point of service and the two 
brothers are known throughout the country because of their 
long and successful (5areer. 

"Clerk Locke was educated in the public schools of Man- 
chester, N. H., and at South Berwick Academy, South Berwick, 
Me., and at Dartmouth College. He came' to Florida in 1870 as 
principal of the first public school at Key West. Being admitted 
to the bar in 1871, he was immediately appointed acting State 
Solicitor for Monroe County. Mr. Locke practiced law in the 
State courts at Key West until August, 1894, when his position 
as clerk forced him to move to Jacksonville. 

"Mr. Locke is Past Grand Master of the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows and Past Master of Key West Lodge of 
Masons. He is a member of the Seminole Club and Young 
Men's Christian Association, and was for several years presi- 
dent of the Jacksonville Wheelmen's Club, also chairman of the 
committee which erected- the Church Club on Forsyth Street." 

The following quotations from two letters written to the 
Secretary about a year ago will be of interest to the class: 

"I have been practicing law with fair success since opening 
my office, (January, 1914), and like the work. Enjoy good 
health and do not know what sickness is, from personal experi- 
ence, but of course, recognize that some of my old time force 
and vitality has departed. I received the article published by 
you in August, and appreciated it very much.' 

"I regret much that circumstances have always prevented 
my meeting the Class at our reunions, or at Commencement 

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time, and am happy to know so many of them are still in the 
land of the living. 

"I envy you your prospect of seeing the classmates you 
speak of, and I wish you to extend to each, my warmest greet- 
ing! Steele is almost the only one I have seen for years, — and 
have not met him for some time. 

"Though 1870 is a long way off, it seems to me, sometimes 
as though it was but yesterday — and again sometimes it seems 
as though it was another life and another world ! The faces of 
the boys are just as clear to me now, as though I had but just 
parted from them ! But the experience of all these years, the 
vicissitudes and trials we all meet with, seem somehow to make 
one feel like a different person, looking down, or back, upon 
something almost unreal ! 

"Yet I recognize a great deal of the same individuality re- 
maining and especially my feelings towards those from whom 
I parted in 70 is as fresh as ever; more vivid, perhaps than 
it would have been had we met frequently; for I remember 
you all now as you were and perhaps had we met often, the 
feeling would have worn off! 

"But it is good to have lived ;— to have known friendships, 
family ties, and even the turmoil of business strife ! And 
rough as the road has been at times, I expect most of us would 
be willing to travel it again !" 

Second letter: , 

"I was very much pleased to receive your letter of the 30th 
ult., and a few days since to receive the picture of the group ; 
and then I realized fully your thoughtfulness in sending me a 
'key' ! — as I doubt if I would have been able to identify all of 
them without it. Steele and Holt, I think I would have located 
by their 'altitude' ! and Putney I recognized by the poise of his 
head! but although Abbott was here with me a couple of days 
this last year, I did not identify him in the group — and Hardy 
and Folsom seemed utter strangers to me; the others, while not 
recognizing them at first, gradually grew into my knowledge, 
after knowing who they were ! 

"I envy you the visiting you did with the 'boys' ! Cheney 
and Bellows I have never met since '70; Brown I saw some 
time about ^76. Hardy I met several times in Boston, years 
ago; Drew I saw at Hanover, and Steele I have seen from time 
to time in New York, but not recently; I hope that some time 
before many years I may be able to take a trip that way again. 
I had a very pleasant letter from Putney this spring — and as I 
have said a visit with Abbott. 

"I congratulate you in having your family near you, and 
well employed. My daughter is with me, but my son has been 
in New York for years." 

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Robert H. Parkinson 



^ M^iy mf 



ROBERT HENRY PARKINSON 
Born August 10, 1849, Cape Elizabeth, Me. 

Parkinson furnishes the main facts regarding his personal 
and professional history. The class are already well informed 
in a general way of his marked success as a patent lawyer, but 
will find here more explicit information, and be interested to 
note the distinction he has attained in his profession, and the 
recognition on a national scale, which he has secured. I could 
wish the account more fully expanded. 

Parkinson has traveled about the country, I presume, in the 
discharge of his professional duties, more extensively and more 
constantly than any other 70 man, and must have seen those of 
our number who have lived in the larger centers rather often. 

"He studied law at Woodstock, Vt., 1870-71, at Manchester, 
N. H., 1871-72, at St. Louis, Mo., in the summer of 1872, was 
admitted to the bar at St. Louis, on examination, in September, 
1872; immediately opened an office for general practice; was 
assistant attorney in Atlantic & Pacific R.R. Co. office for a 
short time, through the consideration of Amos Tuck; then re- 
sumed practice by himself in St. Louis, and in 1875 became part- 
ner of John E. Hatch (Dartmouth '69) at Cincinnati, retaining 
for a time his St. Louis office. This partnership was dissolved 
in December, 1878, a brother, Joseph G. Parkinson, became his 
partner in 1879, and later another brother, George B. Parkinson 
(Dartmouth '75). His practice had become mainly the trial of 
patent, trademark, and unfair competition cases, requiring at- 
tendance on federal courts in most of the larger cities, and in 
1893, finding Chicago a more convenient location than Cincin- 
nati, he made that his home. He is in active practice there as 
the senior member of Parkinson & Lane, arguing many important 
cases in the principal cities of the country. The first case in the 
United States Supreme Court of which he had charge was re- 
ported in the hundredth volume of U. S. reports, and these re- 
ports are now approaching two hundred and fifty volumes. By 
commission of the President and Secretary of State, he acted as 
a representative of the United States in the International Con- 
gress for the Revision of Laws Relating to Industrial Properties, 
held in Washington in 1911, a congress in which forty nations 
actively participated. When, preparatory to the revision of the 
United States Supreme Court rules in equity, that court re- 
quested that each United States Court of Appeals appoint an 
advisory committee on such revision, he was appointed as the 
Chicago member of the committee for that circuit and personally 
drew the report of that committee and represented it in the joint 



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discussions in Washington and elsewhere. He is, and for some 
years past has been, by succesive elections, the Chairman of the 
Section of the American Bar Association on Patent, Trademark 
and Copyright Law, and is, by appointment of Elihu Root, as 
president of that Association, Chairman of its standing commit- 
tee on Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law. He married 
Miss Helen B. McGuflfey, of Cincinnati, April 22, 1878. Of 
their four children, Elizabeth Drake, June Griffin, Stirling Bruce 
and Kelso Steele, all except the last are living." 



EDWIN ALEXANDER PHELPS 

Born October 29, 1841, Waitsfield, Vt. 
Died October 17, 1904, Boston, Mass. 

Phelps was in the practice of law in Boston from 1876 un- 
til his death. Many of us enjoyed a call at his office from time 
to time, finding him always the same quiet, genial, cheery-tem- 
pered person we had known in college days. From a letter he 
wrote to Brown in 1895 to express his regret at not being able 
to attend the reunion shortly to be held in Nevvl York, I will 
quote a few lines : 

"Nothing eventful has transpired with me since our last 
Class report. 

"I am grateful for general good health since we graduated. 
The last of December and first of the present year I passed 
through the severest illness of my life, erysipelas in my head 
and face, from which I am quite recovered. 

"Since our last report I have changed my residence from 
Cambridge, to Waban, one of the beautiful villages of the city 
of Newton, situated on the circuit of the B. & A. R.R., and 
from my dining room window I can look upon the poetic Charles 
River, winding its circuitous way to the sea, where I should be 
pleased to welcome any of my old classmates. 

"Although I have brought no honors to the Class of '70, I 
feel I have brought no discredit upon it, and I feel proud of 
the Class, and of the high distinction and prominence to which 
many of its members have attained." 

Phelps married, in 1877, Mrs. Laura E. A. Smith of Bos- 
ton, a sister of Lewis's wife. No children were born to them, 
but Mrs. Phelps had a daughter by her first marriage, Gertrude 
A. Smith, who became the wife of Dr. Pierce Crosby, a son of 
our famous "Dr. Ben" Crosby. 

Mrs. Phelps and her daughter, Mrs. Crosby (now a widow) 
at present reside in Hanover. 

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ALBERT L. PLUMMER 

Born July 2, 1848, Nashville, Tenn. 
Died April 12, 1905, Junction City, La. 

Your Secretary has gained no information regarding Plum- 
mer later than the date of our 1891 Report, except the fact of 
his death, which fact came in some way to Alumni Editor Com- 
stock of the Alumni Magazine. 

Plummer appears to have spent his whole life since gradu- 
ation as a teacher, excepting five or six years, when to regain 
health he worked as traveling salesman for a wholesale Chicago 
house, through Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. 

Of three children, a son, Paul, was living at last accounts, 
1914. The other two died when very young. His widow was 
(1914) a teacher in "Kenilworth Hall," Austin, Texas. 



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ISAIAH F. PRAY, A.M., M.D. 

Born December 11, 1845, South Berwick, Me. 
Died April 23, 1896, New York 

No data are at hand regarding Pray, other than Wakefield's 
obituary notice issued April 27, 1896; and I can do no better 
than quote a portion of his circular: 

"He took his degree in medicine at the University of the 
City of New York in 1874, having taught school for most of 
the time since 1870, while pursuing his medical studies. He im- 
mediately began practice in New York City, and made that his 
home the remainder of his life. He was successful as a general 
practitioner, but made a specialty of diseases of women. He 
was a visitor at the Woman's Hospital for eighteen years. 

"Pray was a gentle, lovable man, loyal to his friends, and 
making much of his friendships. There was no one of us that 
seemed to take a greater interest in our reunions, attended them 
more regularly, enjoyed meeting his classmates more than Pray 
did, or followed them with more genuine interest. 

"He was faithful and useful in his profession, quiet and re- 
tiring. He had some fine tastes, enjoyed books, and made a 
recreation of the rather exacting studies of astronomy and the 
higher mathematics, apart from his profession. He may have 
loved the quiet of his library rather more than the bustle of 
professional rivalries, but perhaps was never physically very 
robust. 

"He had been failing gradually for two or three years, but 
had attended to practice ' more or less until within two months. 
The disease was general paresis, which suddenly took a violent 
form, and for the last four weeks of his life he had been at an 
asylum, where he died suddenly on Thursday last. He probably 
suffered little or none ; is said to have seemed perfectly cheerful 
and happy through it all, though affected by various delusions. 

"He was married September 18, 1878, to Miss Louisa G. 
Mitchell, of Augusta, Me., who survives him. They had no 
children." 



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Charles E. Putney 



I 



FRANCIS BROWN 
By John King Lord '68 

The death of Francis Brown, which occurred on the 15th of October 
last, removed from the circle of the alumni of the College one who was 
in many respects its foremost representative. 

Dr. Brown's relation to the College was historic and inherited. His 
grandfather, whose name he bore, was the president of the College dur- 
ing the troubled years from 1815 to 1820, and to his wisdom, sacrifice 
and devotion were due, in great measure, the security of the charter and 
the existence of the College. His father, Samuel Oilman Brown, was a 
graduate of Dartmouth and a professor from 1841 to 1867, then president 
of Hamilton College, and in his later life again an interim instructor at 
Dartmouth, filling a vacancy in the department of intellectual philosophy. 

Dr. Brown was himself a graduate of the College in the class of 
1870, being the foremost scholar of the class, and a tutor in Greek for 
two years, and in 1879, on the death of Professor Proctor, he was 
invited to the chair of Greek. Later, he w^as a member of the College 
board of preachers for the eight years of its existence, and from 1905, 
until his death, he was a member of the Board of Trust. Twice he 
was offered the presidency of the College, but felt that the call of duty 
lay in another direction. 

Following in the steps of his father and his grandfather, he turned 
in his youth to the Christian ministry, and graduating at Union Theolog- 
ical Seminary in 1877 he received the Seminary fellowship, by which he 
enjoj'^ed a two 3^ears' residence at the university of Berlin. On his re- 
turn from Berlin he was recalled to the Seminary as an instructor, and 
the connection thus made was ended only by his death, becoming more 
intimate and vital as he became successively^ professor, a director and 
president of the Seminar}-. His wide scholarl}^ interests w^ere indicated 
by his active membership in several learned societies, by his association 
with the directorate of several important institutions and by the honorar}- 
degrees conferred upon him by many colleges and universities in this 
country and by the universities of Glasgow and Oxford in Great Britain. 
The fruit of his studies appeared not only in his utterances in the pulpit, 
but in various publications, some that were tributar}- to current discus- 
sion, and some, like his Hebrciv and English Lexicon of the Old Testa- 
ment, that were a permanent contribution to linguistic scholarship. As 
a scholar he held first rank among the living graduates of the College. 

The period of his connection with the Seminary was marked by that 
upheaval in religious thought that attended the rise of the so-called 
"higher criticism," by a changed emphasis in belief and, in some cases. 



b}' a re-statement of doctrine. In this movement Dr. Brown had a part 
as a leader and not as a fanatic. He retained the strength and simplicity 
of his early faith, but enlarged and enriched it by wider knowledge and 
more generous sympathy. His leadership in the movement to interpret 
religious truth according to the results of modern scholarship and mod- 
ern thinking, and to bring the Sem.inary into accord with the advance of 
knowledge, did not escape criticism and opposition. 

When the Seminar}^ was under fire before the General Assembly of 
the Presbyterian Church for unsoimdness of doctrinal instruction, as 
iiidicated by the examination of some of its graduates, Dr. Brown up- 
held its libert}' and defended its teachings so successfully that the 
institution was more firmly established in the confidence of the religious 
world, and, in the years that followed, it received a more generous 
support in the number of its students and in material endowments. 

It was in such activities and relations as these that the char- 
acteristics of Dr. Brown appeared. He was a scholar by inheri- 
tance and by training, loving knowledge for knowledge's sake and 
and also for its application to life. His ideal was of the high- 
est. From his college life to his latest study he was satisfied 
witii nothing less than his best, and to make his work complete he was 
willing to give to it unlimited time and labor. His ideal was matched 
and strengthened by a sense of duty. It was this sense that led him 
to decline the presidency of the College, as he would not abandon the 
Seminary to which he felt himself in honor bound. 

To his scholarship, developed as much on the side of power as of 
knowledge, he added administrative ability of a high order, Avhich was 
recognized by his associates in placing him at the head of the Seminary, 
an.d was attested by his success in that position. In the conflict of 
opinions and the consequent tendency to dravv^ apart of men who ought 
to have worked together. Dr. Brov/n was chosen for this position 
because of the sagacity by which he was able to estimate opposing in- 
terests and to bring them into working relations. Never a settled pastor, 
he was greatly sought as a preacher, being effective in the pulpit not so 
much from the grace and force of his delivery as from the dei)th and 
scope of his thought, the richness of his spiritual experience, and the 
almost matchless simplicity and beauty of his style. His English was a 
draught from a "well undcfilcd." His prayers were the expression of a 
spiritual life that carried to others the suggestion of its divine source 
and led them to desire a knowledge of it. 

Personally Dr. Brov\'n was a noteworthy man. Of fine physique, 
tall and well proportioned, his body was a fitting symbol of his mind. 
In his youth he engaged in athletic sports and never lost his interest in 
them. I)eing ever an interested spectator of the contests of college teams. 



Ill manner Dr. Brown was cordial but reserved. He had no fund of 
small talk, and did not always appear at ease in ordinary conversa- 
tion: he did not have the art of communicating himself. With very few 
could he be said to be intimate. He did not easily reveal himself in 
intercourse, as it was less difficult for him to disclose his feelings v^nth 
his pen than with his voice, but he had a deeply sympathetic nature and 
under a quiet exterior carried a heart that was warm and unusually 
affectionate, and that had an intense and often unsuspected interest in 
others. Of the hue quality of his family life this is not the place to 
speak. 

The death of Dr. Brown is a severe loss to the College, as it not 
only removes one of the prominent members^ of the Board of Trust, 
but one who for some time has been the only representative on that 
Board of the clergy, who once had so large a proportion, and the one 
who. apart from the president, has been most closely in touch with edu- 
cational movements. His experience, sagacity, and devotion to the inter- 
ests of the College cannot be replaced, but to his successor he has left 
an inspiring example. 

Dr. Brov>-n's last visit to the College was at the inauguration of Pres- 
ident Hopkins, v/hen, on behalf of the Trustees, he put into the hands of 
the new president the charter of the College as the symbol of its inter- 
ests. No one who saw him on that occasion failed to note the face on 
which disease, that was all too soon to become fatal, had set its mark, and 
to feel that it vv-as only by a heroic effort that he delivered a message 
that was in the nature of an accolade, as he said of the charter and to 
the president: "It is good law. and good history, and good religion. It 
has been through the fire. Guard it as j'our life." 

He himself has fulfilled that trust, he has kept his faith, and now he 
has entered into his labors and his works do follow him. 



CHARLES EDWARD PUTNEY, A.M., PH.D. 
Born February 26, 1840, Bow, N. H. 

At our last reunion (1915) Putney was present, still in 
active service as teacher, though seventy-five years of age, still 
well and alert, indeed in better health than he had enjoyed the 
first two-thirds of his life. He is our veteran teacher, honored, 
respected, loved by a host of men and women who in youth were 
favored with his instruction and guiding care. 

Putney's record shall be given in his own words. The let- 
ter following was written in April, 1916: 

"The most important and most felicitous event of my life 
occurred the week after my graduation, when I was married to 
Abbie M. Clement, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Clement, D.D., 
then residing at Norwich, Vt. I first met Miss Clement at the 
Boys' Boarding School in which we were associate teachers 
during the last term of my sophomore and first term of my 
junior years. Hence she was especially helpful during the three 
following years when I was principal of that school. I must add 
here that my wife was, during the thirty years of our married 
life a most loyal and sympathetic helpmate. Two events of 
special interest during my stay at Norwich I must record. Our 
first child, Mary Phillips, was born September 3, 1871. At the 
first reunion of our class it was our privilege to entertain at our 
home at Norwich the thirteen members of the class who at- 
tended the reunion. On that occasion the class cup was formally 
presented to Mary Phillips Putney, who still cherishes and fondly 
exhibits the now historic memento. 

"In September, 1873, it was my good fortune to become a 
member of the faculty of the St. Johnsbury Academy at St. 
Johnsbury, Vt. This institution was then just entering its new 
buildings, and, because of its increased facilities, broadening 
and enriching its curriculum. I served eight years as assistant 
and fifteen years as principal. During this time the attendance 
increased from seventy-five to three hundred. 

"These few facts are easily recorded, but the real history 
of those twenty-three years it would be impossible to write. It 
falls to the lot of few to work twenty-three consecutive years 
under conditions more congenial than those which render these 
years a happy memory. 

"February 12, 1875, our second child, Ellen Clement, was 
born. Failing health, due to infirmities caused by my army ex- 
periences, which, as some of you will recall, were a serious han- 
dicap to me in college, rendered a change imperative. So in 
1896 I severed my connection with the Academy and took a 

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vacation of nine months. In March, 1897, I accepted the super- 
intendency of the schools of the Templeton District, Mass. The 
mode of life and activity involved in this change soon wrought 
a complete physical recreation. Four years of that regime so 
fully confirmed my health that the last twenty years have been 
physically the best of my life. 

"February 11, 1901, my wife died, which was the prime rea- 
son for my accepting, in the following April, a position in the 
Burlington, Vt., High School, where, for fifteen years I have 
been teaching Greek and Latin. 

"I have made this sketch as brief and simple as possible, 
leaving it to my classmates to read between the lines the vol- 
ume of experience, rich, and for the most part pleasant, which 
has rendered life worth living. I suppose I am growing old; if 
so I am growing old happily if not gracefully, blessed with two 
daughters, and five grand children. My younger daughter, Mrs. 
Walter O. Lane, resides here at Burlington, with whom I make 
my home. Mr. and Mrs. Lane assure the members of the Class 
of 1870 a most cordial welcome, if at their convenience they 
will pull the latch-string of their residence at 55 Cliff Street, 
Burlington, Vt." 

The following, taken from the Alumni Notes of the Alumni 
Magazine, will interest his classmates: 

"At the opening of the Sunday school of the College St. 
Church, Burlington, Vt., on April 16, Charles E. Putney was 
surprised by the presentation to him by the pastor of the church 
of the insignia of the First Brigade, First Division, 18th Army 
Corps, the gift of friends in the church. The medal bears this 
inscription: 'Professor C. E. Putney, from friends in the Col- 
lege St. Church, Burlington, Vt., 26 February, 1916, (the anni- 
versary of his birth) in remembrance of his gallant service in 
the War for the Union as sergeant Co. C, 13th New Hampshire 
Volunteers, 1st Brig., 1st Div., 18th Army Corps.' " 



HUBBARD WILKINS REED, (C.S.D.) 
Born December 30, 1849, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Your Secretary has received no word from Reed regard- 
ing the Report. He is probably still living, and his residence is 
probably Salt Lake City. I heard from him in April, 1915, re- 
garding the approaching reunion. 

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Frank A. Sherman Courtesy Alumni Magazine 



FRANK ASBURY SHERMAN, M.S. (C.S.D.) 

Born October 4, 1841, Knox, Me. 
Died February 26, 1915, Hanover, N. H. 

The main facts of Sherman's life are given in the following 
obituary notice taken from the Alumni Magazine. To this I 
add J. K. Lord's appreciation, published in the same number of 
the Magazine, to v^hich in its clear expression of Professor Sher- 
man's sterling virtues, your Secretary can most heartily sub- 
scribe. 

From the Alumni Magazine: 

"Professor Sherman v^as born in Knox, Me., October 4, 
1841, his parents being Harvey Hatch and Eliza (Doty) Sher- 
man. He was preparing for college at East Maine Conference 
Seminary, Bucksport, when the Civil War broke out, and July 
28, 1862, he enlisted in the Twentieth Maine Regiment. He was 
soon transferred to the Fourth Regiment, then serving in the 
Peninsular campaign. He was wounded in his first battle, at 
Fredericksburg, and was in hospital and convalescent camp near- 
ly a year. Having returned to his regiment, he was again 
wounded at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, this wound resulting in 
the amputation of his left arm. He was finally discharged March 
7, 1865. 

"The next year he entered the Chandler Scientific Depart- 
ment, teaching several terms during his course, and maintaining 
a high standing, especially in mathematics. He was a member of 
the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi. 

"For the first year after graduation he was instructor in 
mathematics in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and then re- 
turned to Hanover as associate professor of mathematics in the 
Chandler School. In 1872 he was promoted to the full profes- 
sorship, and in 1893, upon the complete merging of the Chandler 
School with the College, he became professor of mathematics on 
the Chandler foundation. He retired from active teaching in 
1911. 

"January 18, 1872, Professor Sherman was married to Lucy 
Rosette Hurlbutt of Hanover Center, who survives him with 
three children, Maurice S. '94, editor of the Springfield (Mass.) 
Union, Gertrude E., teacher of French in Abbott Academy, 
Andover, Mass., and Margaret L., wife of Francis J. Neef, in- 
structor in German at Dartmouth." 

Professor Lord's tribute: 

"The death of one, whose connection with the College was 
as long as that of Professor Sherman, calls into distinct view 
the changes which he saw. 

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"Of the Faculty, as he entered it in 1871, few are still alive. 
During his forty years of service he saw many come and go, 
more than still remain, and yet others come who were born while 
he was teaching and rose to sit beside him in chairs of instruction. 
Forty years of uninterrupted labor could not fail of a marked 
effect, and the impression made upon successive classes, as well 
as upon his associates in the Faculty and upon his neighbors of 
the village, was singularly definite and simple. He was not a 
man of moods, but, apparently unruffled by outward events, he 
went his placid way, in which his dignified walk, becoming 
somewhat slower under the infirmities of age, typified an even- 
ness of spirit. 

"But in all his work and all his intercourse the quality that 
was most manifest, marking his whole character, was fidelity. 
What he thought was his duty, that he did. He was not assertive 
or quarrelsome, and as he did not try to force his way upon 
others, so he did not let others turn him from what he thought 
was right. It was his fidelity to duty that led him to vol- 
unteer in the service of his country in the Civil War, in 
which he received three wounds, one resulting in the loss of an 
arm, but his service was never a matter of boasting or his wounds 
of complaint. The same spirit was shown in his teaching. He 
taught long hours, especially in the Chandler School before it 
was merged in the College, but he did not complain because he 
felt that under the circumstances it was an obligation. 

"It was the same in any work of a public character. What- 
ever he undertook was done promptly and with exactness, wheth- 
er it was the laying of the pipes of the village aqueduct, the 
construction of new sewers, the care of the cemetery, the con- 
duct of the affairs of the precinct as commissioner, or the charge 
of the schools as member of the school board, when in particu- 
lar he superintended the erection of the new school house in 
1877. He was diligent in his business, public, professional and 
private, and the results were equally good, when seen in a 
building, a drawing, or in the garden in which he delighted. 

"Professor Sherman was not a man who sought popularity, 
either in the community or among the students. His ideas were 
definite and definitely expressed without fear or favor. In teach- 
ing he strove to secure the same precision and exactness in others 
which he cultivated for himself, and nothing disturbed him more 
than carelessness and indifference. His years of faithful and 
honorable service have not failed of their rightful effect in the 
life of the College, and will long remain an effective force in the 
character of his pupils and in the welfare of the community." 



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WILLIAM RICE SMART, M.D. 

Born April 7, 1849, Camden, Me. 
Died October 19, 1892, Camden, Me. 

Smart began medical practice in Bangor but after a few- 
months, "ill health obliged him to go home to Camden where 
the settling of his father's estate detained him. In 1874 he 
opened an office in Camden." I quote from the last Report. It 
will be noticed^ that he died within two years after the above 
words were written. Your Secretary has no data regarding the 
eighteen years— 1874-1892. 



BALLARD SMITH 



Born September 20, 1849, Carmelton, Ind. 
Died July 31, 1900, Waverly, Mass. 

Smith's career was in some ways a brilliant one, in the voca- 
tion of journalism. He was connected with several of our lead- 
ing journals — at one time holding the position of managing edi- 
tor of the Louisville Courier- Journal, and later, I believe, the 
same position on one of the leading New York papers. 

And yet his classmates have, in general, but little knowledge 
of his personal history, and your Secretary can add nothing 
definite and authentic beyond what is in our last Report. He 
married, in 1890, a Miss Butterfield. Whether she is still liv- 
ing, and whether children were born to them I do not know. 



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SANFORD HENRY STEELE, LL.B. 
Born November 26, 1847, Stanstead, Can. 

Steele speaks for himself, all too briefly. Your secretary, 
while able to say much regarding some delightful visits he has 
had w^ith his quondam "chum," in recent years, both in Hanover 
and in New York, is not able to write an historical sketch that 
would add much to what men of 70 already know of the sub- 
stantial success in law and business which Steele has achieved. 
The following is his own report: 

''There seems to be very little to say. If I attempt to men- 
tion the very few things which our classmates could possibly 
take any pride in they will be mortified to see how very few 
they are, and as to the things I am ashamed of — well the less 
said the better. So there you are ! 

"Since 1899 my professional work has been mainly limited 
to services for the General Chemical Company, a corporation 
which I was instrumental in forming, and which, while embrac- 
ing many elements of the so-called 'Trusts,' has never been the 
subject of any unfavorable criticism, and reflects credit upon 
all identified with its management and business policies. I believe 
the College is a stockholder. I held various official positions in 
this company, General Counsel, Chairman of Executive Commit- 
tee, Vice-President, and President. Owing to enforced absences 
from the office I tendered my resignation in 1915, which was 
accepted in the following year, but my name is still carried on 
the company roster as 'General Counsel.' 

"I retired from my law firm some time ago, but the firm 
continues as 'Steele and Otis,' 25 Broad Street, New York. 

"The pecuniary results of my work have not been brilliant 
according to modern notions, but they have been highly satis- 
factory to me as I have long enjoyed the 'glorious privilege of 
being independent,' and have usually had something to spare 
for the undeserving poor without involving such degree of self 
sacrifice as to render me proud or self satisfied. 

"Mrs. Steele and I have been for many years very dependent 
upon each other in keeping up the appearance of home life, but 
we have a daughter, wife of Dr. Dudley Roberts, living near us 
in Brooklyn where we can show you the real thing including 
four grandchildren of whom we entertain a very favorable 
opinion. 

"As I look forward to the time when I shall begin to grow 
old, I am conscious of a constantly increasing interest in the 
friendship of earlier days, -^hich, happily, Mrs. Steele shares 
cordially. We have a modesM. home in Southbury, Conn., where 

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we are generally to be found in summer, and something similar 
in Pinehurst, N. C, for winter. Whenever a '70 boy honors us 
we try to make up by cordiality of welcome what may be lacking 
in other directions. 

'*I wish I could truthfully add that I am doing something of 
great value toward painting that ideal portrait of Uncle Sam 
as I have hopes, and faith to believe, he will appear before these 
tremendous times are over." 

The following taken from The General Chemical Bulletin 
shows the company's high estimate of Steele's services : 

"It is with great regret that we have to announce that our 
beloved President, Mr. Sanford H. Steele, has insisted on carry- 
ing out a plan which he has had in mind for some time, and has 
retired from the presidency. He has been elected to a new 
office — that of General Counsel of the Company — in filling the 
duties of which he will not be in any way tied down as to time 
or place; but the company will be able to receive the inestimable 
benefit to be derived from his advice." 



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ETHELBERT TALBOT, D.D., LL.D. 
Born October 9, 1848, Fayette, Mo. 

Talbot sends me the following all too brief sketch of his 
life subsequent to 1891 : 

"After serving as Missionary Bishop of Wyoming and 
Idaho for about twelve years Talbot was elected Bishop of the 
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania with his residence at South 
Bethlehem, Pa. He came to Pennsylvania on February 2, 1898. 
After he had administered the large Diocese of Central Penn- 
sylvania for seven years, it was divided into two Dioceses 
(Harrisburg and Bethlehem). Talbot chose the Diocese of 
Bethlehem. Talbot's daughter, Mrs. Francis Donaldson, attend- 
ed our last reunion. She has three children and they live in 
Yonkers, New York. Talbot has written four books, *My People 
of the Plains,' *A Bishop Among His Flock,' 'Tim,' and *A 
Bishop's Message.' They are all published by Harper Brothers, 
save the last, which is published by Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia." 

Your Secretary is unwilling to let this account stand without 
supplementing it with some words of his own. Talbot has played 
a very important part in the achievements of the class of '70. It 
requires but few words to record the grades, the times, and the 
places of his official career, but much space could be given to the 
telling of what he has accomplished, the important place he has 
made for himself in the episcopate, and the large and wholesome 
influence he has exerted as a sane, broad-minded, and eloquent 
preacher. Through his books he has reached a very large circle 
of hearers, much larger, I suppose, than that which has heard 
his spoken words. 

Talbot was in Hanover at our reunion (1915) and gave a 
memorial address on Rev. Mr. Haughton, in St. Thomas' Church, 
which Brown, Day, and the Secretary, at least, had the pleasure 
of hearing. He visited Hanover again this past winter as Col- 
lege preacher — a function he performed frequently some twenty 
years ago — and proved to be still full of vigor and enthusiasm, 
equal apparently to many years of service. 

Probably each member of the class has become pretty well 
acquainted with Talbot's public career, and nearly all have met 
him occasionally, so much has he moved about through the sev- 
eral states, in the discharge of his official duties. He gives us 
all the same hearty, enthusiastic greeting that was so familiar to 
us in our college days. 



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Ethelbert Talbot 



HENRY WINSLOW TEWKSBURY 

Born June 24, 1847, New Boston, N. H. 
Died January 4, 1903, Randolph, Vt. 

Tewksbury practiced law in Manchester, N. H., 1872-80. 
The period from 1883 to 1887 was his most active and pro- 
ductive period. In these years his vocation was that of a pro- 
fessional lecturer. He was' heard in twenty-two states of our 
Union. He was under the management of the Redpath Lyceum 
Bureau. I have before me newspaper notices in most favorable 
and enthusiastic terms coming from thirteen different states. 
There is no question but that Tewksbury was a public speaker 
of very unusual skill and persuasive power, and it is probable 
that he had not reached the full maturity of his powers when 
the tragic fate of the railroad accident, one of the most terrible 
in our New England annals, suddenly cut short his oratorical 
career. 

I will quote a part of the obituary notice which Brown pre- 
pared for the class, June, 1903 : 

"He had never fully regained the vigor which characterized 
him before the railway accident of February 5th, 1887, at Hart- 
ford Bridge, Vt. In this accident one of his arms and one of 
his legs were broken, and he nearly lost his life by fire, as he 
was pinned down in the wreck. The nervous shock was very 
great, and although he recovered sufficiently, after a time, to 
engage in the businessi of insurance in Boston, and also held, 
for a year or two, the position of Town Clerk of Randolph, Vt., 
where his home had been since 1880, he was never able to re- 
turn to the lecture platform, for which his abilities and tastes 
had seemed to fit him in a marked degree. For the last two or 
three years he had been visibly failing. About the middle of 
December, 1902, he went to Brattleboro, Vt., to receive treat- 
ment for a nervous disorder and died there, suddenly, of dis- 
ease of the heart. The funeral service was held at Randolph, 
on Thursday, January 8th. 

"Tewksbury's wife, and their daughter, Mary Carr, — their 
only surviving child, — are now (1903) at Hyde Park, Vt., where 
Miss Tewksbury has a position as teacher." 



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THOMAS HEBER WAKEFIELD 

Born August 28, 1850, Chelsea, Mass. 
Died November 9, 1896, Dedham, Mass. 

Wakefield, it will be remembered, went into law and settled 
in Boston. He was in partnership with his father and brother 
for a few years immediately preceding his father's death in 1888 ; 
but practiced by himself, though in the same offices with his 
father, the greater part of the time. From 1888 he continued 
his law business in Boston up to the time of his death. 

I will quote a part of the obituary notice sent to the class 
by Brown in 1897. 

I wish in my own behalf to testify to the industry and 
fidelity with which Wakefield pursued his chosen vocation, and 
to the pleasure I had in several short interviews with him in his 
Boston office. I presume his son, Harold, is still living, but 
have no certain knowledge of him. 

Brown's tribute is as follows : 

*'His life was without startling events. He did not live 
in the public eye; yet not because he was a man of slender 
caliber, or feeble mental powers. He was acute and shrewd, 
but he seemed never to care to exploit these qualities. His am- 
bitions were limited, but were not selfish. Those who knew 
him best prized him most, and all the more because of the un- 
obtrusiveness of his disposition, and because of the essential 
seriousness which gave a sober touch to a nature social and 
warm. 

"He was the best o:^ classmates. He took a personal in- 
terest in each member of the Class, with a clear sight and dis- 
crimination, but with geniality and appreciative judgment. He 
followed, watchfully, the fortunes of all of us. If we lost 
track of a classmate, it was generally Wakefield who at length 
discovered him. In 1877 he was elected Assistant Secretary of 
the Class, and more than once took the whole Secretary's duty. 
At its meeting in New York, in February, 1895, the Class made 
tardy recognition of his efficiency by choosing him to the Sec- 
retary's place." 

He died of an internal abscess, induced by laryngitis, after 
a brief illness, November 9, 1896. 

His wife, whose maiden name was Amelia B. Conant, sur- 
vived him, and is still living as far as the Secretary is informed. 



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Charles J. Walker 



CHARLES JOSEPH WALKER, A.M. 

Born June, 30, 1846, St. Charles, Mo. 
Died May 13, 1916, Columbia, Mo. 

A letter written to the Secretary in June, 1910, will, I 
think, give his classmates a better picture of our sturdy, sensi- 
ble, and large-hearted Missourian, than anything I could write 
from the data that have come into my hands. I reproduce it 
here with slight omissions: 

"Dear Hastings: 

"I have cherished the hope of meeting with the boys of 
70 on the occasion of our 40th Anniversary, but find it impos- 
sible to be with you. Nothing could afford me greater pleasure 
than to be with you boys again and clasp the warm glad hand 
of fellowship. I will not weary you with a recital of the inci- 
dents of my life during the last forty years. Life has been 
full of lights and shadows, but there has been much more of 
joy and happiness than of sorrow and sadness. I have reached 
that period of life where I look forward most to the success and 
happiness of my children, and it may be interesting to some of 
you at least to know something about them. 

"We removed from our old home at Wentzville, near where 
I was born and raised, and came to Columbia, Mo., in 1900. 
Our chief object was to obtain the advantages of a University 
education for such of the children as might be disposed to take it. 

"Unfortunately Mrs. Walker was in delicate health, and 
some months after coming to Columbia her condition became 
so alarming that I took her to the Lutheran Hospital in St. Louis 
where she died August 26, 1901. Her sister, Miss Annie Shore, 
came into our home and has taken care of the children ever 
since. We have had six children, all of whom but one are 
living. 

"Mary Shore, our only daughter, born June 1, 1882, gradu- 
ated from the State University in 1903, taught in the Univer- 
sity until 1907, when she went to Yale, where she received her 
Ph.D. Degree in 1909. She is at present teaching in the Mathe- 
matics Department of the University.* 

"Charles Joseph, born October 23, 1883, graduated in 1904, 
took a two years* law course, went to Everett, Washington, in 
1906. He married in 1907, and I am the grandfather of one of 
the sweetest little babies I ever saw. 

"Ben Shore, born August 8, 1885, graduated from the 
Engineering Department in 1907. He is in the employ of the 



*She is now (March, 1916) Mrs. Albert W. Hull, and lives in 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

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government on the Alabama River, and is now located at Selma, 
Ala. 

"Warren Linn, born June 30 (my own birthday), 1887, died 
suddenly January 1, 1893. 

"Thomas Lee, universally called Lee, born July 7, 1889, 
has just received his Academic Degree the 9th of this month. 
He has had one year in the Law Department, and hopes to 
graduate from the same two years hence. He is associated with 
me and says he is going to remain in Columbia, that this town 
is good enough for him. Indeed, I could hardly get along with- 
out him, and I have reached that period in life where there is 
a great deal of office drudgery, which I am compelled to throw 
upon younger shoulders. 

"Robert Montgomery, the baby, born November 2, 1895, 
has just completed his second year in the High School. He is 
a natural born mechanic and says he is going to be an engineer 
as his brother Ben. I feel unusually proud of him. I am in- 
deed proud of the record they have all made; if any of them 
have any immoral habits I don't know it. They have certainly 
made good in their school life. They inherit a large part of 
their intellectual ability and a still larger part of their moral 
character and stability from their mother. 

"I will certainly be with you boys in spirit and regret that 
I cannot be with you in person on the day of our class reunion. 
I am enclosing a small draft to partially assist in defraying the 
necessary expenses of the occasion. As I read the names of 
Abbott, Bellows, Brown, Edgell, Hardy, Holt, Parkinson, Put- 
ney, vSteele, Talbot and Worcester, who are to assemble at old 
Dartmouth in the near future, I can hardly refrain from be- 
coming one of the number. 

"Many of the boys have gone to the great beyond; let us 
cherish the hope that on some glad day in the future the class 
of 1870 will meet again where each and every one will respond 
to the roll call. 

"Somehow I have a supreme confidence that that mysteri- 
ous Providence which has given us being will see that that being 
ultimately reaches its highest possibility and achievement of 
enjoyment and happiness. 

"May God be with you, one and all, until we meet again." 

His son Lee, who is continuing the business which was in 
the firm name of Walker & Walker, gives the following facts 
regarding his father's sickness and death: 

He was stricken with paralysis on the 2nd of March, 1914, 
On the 9th of May, 1916, he suffered another stroke, and died 
on the 13th, without having recovered consciousness. 

Talbot says he was commonly styled Senator Walker, from 
having served in the State senate. 

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Dear Classmates of 70: 

The Class History, already long delayed, cannot be issued for 
some weeks yet. I have concluded to send out a circular letter in ad- 
vance, partly for information, partly as a reminder of duty undone. 

The delay alluded to above is due in part to lack of time available 
for this work in the midst of my duties, but it is also due to the failure 
of some of you to send in your sketches. Five of our surviving members 
have not yet responded — even to a second call. How long ought I to 
wait for these delinquents? Twenty-one portraits have been sent to me 
by the men themselves or their friends ; eight of our living members 
have as yet sent none. 

It will be difficult to get information regarding some of those who 
have died since 1891, the date of our last regular report. I urge upon you 
to aid me in this matter. I will name those who are of this number, 
exclusive of the seven who have died since June, 1915 : *Allen, *Boss, 
♦Brockway, Danforth, C.S.D., ° Dearborn 1st, Dearborn 2nd, Hall, 
Hazen, Hemenwaj^, C.S.D., Hughes, C.S.D., Johnston, C.S.D , "Leonard, 
Phelps, Plummer, °Pray, *Sherman, C.S.D., Smart, Smith, °Tewks- 
burj^, "Wakefield, °Wardwell. Of those marked ° I have on file the 
obituary notice prepared by Brown, our then secretary. Of those marked 
with an asterisk I have a fair amount of biographical matter, though 
more would be gladly received. Please help, fellows, as much as you 
can ; and act promptl3^ 

We have met with sad losses since June, 1915. Six of our gradu- 
ates and one non-graduate have died in this short year and a quarter : 
Edgell, October 8; Barber, November 24; Worcester, May 2; Walker, 
May 13 ; Day, June 25 ; Brown, October 15 ; and Roller, Februarj'^ 8. 

Edgell's death occurred in New York where since 1887 he had 
made his home, though for several years past he had spent much of his 
time in Newport, N. H., on the estate formerly owned by Austin Cor- 
bin, his wife's father. He had been ill about a year, and 3^et as late as 
June, 1915, had seemed hopeful of recovery. A telegram; sent to the 
classmates assembled here, strikingly expressed this hope. Steele and 
Brown saw^ him frequentl}^ during his^ illness and have spoken of his 
cheerful patience and thoughtful kindness. ''His engaging personal qual- 
ities," Brown writes, "persisted in strength to the end." Mrs. Edgell 
spends most of her time in Newport. The three sons are, so far as T 
know, all living; the youngest, Harold, is reported to me as gaining- 
distinction in his work as a member of the Harvard faculty. 

Barber's death was the climax of a very long physical ailment — 
lasting five years or more. But most of the tinie he was free from any 
suflfering, or serious disabiiit}-. Attacks occurred at intervals, when he 
would be under hospital care for a few weeks. The end came Novem- 
ber 24. 

He had given up his college work in Pittsburg in 1889, though he 
had not changed his place of residence. For twenty-five 3'ears he had 



lived a very retired life; the last eighteen a veritable recluse, enjoying 
his books, but seeing, I should judge, very little of his friends. He 
left a valuable library of some seven thousand volumes. His wife had 
died eighteen years before. They had no children. 

Worcester had been in excellent health until about Christmas time 
of last year, when after alighting from a street car, and in endeavoring 
to avoid collision with an automobile, he fell heavily against the street 
curbing, sustaining injuries which made it necessar}^ for him to be in 
a hospital for some weeks. On the evening of February 17, Hardy, 
Abbott, and I, who were assembled in Hardy's delightful home in 
Arlington for a most enjoyable reunion, visited with our genial class- 
mate "by 'phone" and found him expecting to leave the hospital in a 
few days. He went home (Hollis, N. H.) — I do not know the date — 
but he did not regain his strength. A v/eakness of the heart was dis- 
closed and on May 2nd he passed awa}^ In the Alumni Magazine, Edi- 
tor Comstock quotes from, your Secretary. "No member of the class 
comm.anded by his genuineness and nobilit}^ of character more universally 
the esteem of his classmates." 

Walker had been disabled — confined to his house, I think— for a 
little more than two years, never having recovered from a shock of par- 
alysis. Your Secretary has received several letters from him, and his 
son, Lee, in the past five or six 3^ears, showing the deep interest still felt 
in his classmates, and his keen regret at not being able to meet them. 
His home since 1900 had been in Columbia, Mo. His son, Lee, had 
become partner with his father in the practice of the law. Talbot in- 
forms me that Walker had been a member of the state senate and v/as 
familiarly known as Senator Walker. I understand that he had full 
possession of his mental faculties during this long period of confine- 
ment and could enjoy his friends and life in general. I received a kindly 
greeting from him as late as last New Year's. Walker, I am^ sure, 
worked out a career and lived a life every way worth)^ of his Alma 
Mater. 

Day was probably not well knov/n to most of you, as he graduated 
from the Chandler School, and so has been enrolled with our class only 
since the independent existence of the Chandler School ceased. His 
whole business life Avas spent in St. Louis and it seems to have been" 
a prosperous one. He showed much interest in our reunions ; though 
living so far away he was with us both in 1910 and 1915. He seemed 
thoroughly to enjoy both gatherings. His young wife, v/hom he had 
married only a few months before, accompanied him on the last visit. 
His last illness began in November with a severe attack of grippe ; and 
though lie rallied sufficientl}^ to be in his office somewhat between Jan- 
uary and March, his disease increased and became seriously complicated 
with other ailments, until it worked its fatal result on June 25 — one 
year alm.ost to day after the ending of his visit in Hanover. 



Of Roller's death I was informed by his son, Douglas, with whom 
he had lived, in Denver, for a few years past. Failing health was the 
cause of his removal from Salida (Col.) which had been his home for 
thirty years or more. Roller appears to have been one of the most pros- 
inent business men of that section of the state, and to have borne an 
enviable reputation for integrity, enterprise, and public-mindedness. He 
had been in ill health for a year or more. His death occurred on Feb- 
ruary 8th. 

The latest to leave us is one who in all these fifty years since we 
entered college has been our ideal of scholar, man, and friend. Of 
Frank Brown's career nothing need be said here in detail. I am send- 
ing with this letter a copy of John K. Lord's fine appreciation contributed 
to the Alumni Magazine of latest date. It says better than I could just 
what I would like to say. I w^ant to add here just a personal touch or 
two. 

I saw Frank in Nev/ York in May last. He then seemed to be regain- 
ing his health w^hich had become so impaired the autumn before. Again I 
saw him at Commencement time, when his duties as trustee brought him 
to Hanover as usual. He then seemed quite his natural self, and we had 
two or three delightful meetings together. He came again at the time of 
President Hopkins' inauguration, and the change in his appearance was 
very great. It seemed that the fatal blow might fall at any moment ! 
Yet he did his important and by no means easy part in the program, with 
apparently full vigor. There was the fine phrasing and the full, rich, fin- 
ished vocal expression so familiar to those who have heard his public 
utterances in recent years. It was splendid and heroic. 

He died ten days later; and when his body was laid away in our 
beautiful cemetery, I had the sad pleasure and the honor to take my 
place with President Hopkins at the head of the casket in bearing the 
body to its last resting place. No other classmate w-as present. Steele, 
how'cver, was able to attend the funeral services in New^ York. 

We know verj- \yell our classmate's achievements and honors ; per- 
haps we do not all realize that no member of our class was a truer or 
better friend. No m.ember probably has done so much to keep himself 
informed of our whereabouts and doings and to communicate this 
knowledge to his classmates, His going has left a great gap in our 
ranks. 

While the printer's proof of this letter is in my hands there comes 
the news of Farnham's death, in Wyoming, N. Y'. It occurred Novem- 
ber 12. He retired from active parochial w^ork in 1912. He continued to 
live in Wyoming, supplying nearby pulpits, lecturing and teaching. 
December 26, 1915. an attack arising from some impairment of the 
heart's action warned him that his life m.ight end suddenly. Mrs. Farn- 
liam v/rites that he suffered m.uch toward the last and welcomed death 
as a grateful release from weariness and pain. He wrote me last March 
in a cheerful tone, saying that he was "able to be up and about", though 
he realized that death was im.minent. Lemuel S. Hastings 

Hanover. N. H.. December 16. 1916 



JOHN HENRY WARDWELL 

Born June 11, 1844, Sanbornton, N. H. 
Died July 23, 1894, Williamstown, Mass. 

The following account of Wardwell's life and more par- 
ticularly of his prolonged illness and death is taken from Brown's 
circular letter of 1894: 

"He taught at Amesbury, Mass., Milford, N. H., Saco, 
Me., Quincy, Arlington and Boston, Mass., and from 1880 to 
1890 was Principal of the Grammar School at Medford, Mass. 
The state of his health, which had begun to fail in 1888, forced 
him to resign this position. He was one of the nineteen who 
attended the Class Reunion at our Twentieth Anniversary, and, 
although manifestly under the power of disease, he enjoyed 
the meeting with quiet zest. After this he lived for a time at 
Andover and at Weston, Mass., and in 1892 removed to Wil- 
liamstown, where he remained until he died. His decline was 
gradual but steady through these years. He suffered constantly, 
and for the last twelve months was helpless, although he was 
dressed every day, even to the day of his death. He was buried 
at Lowell, Mass. 

"He was a man of high aims, strong principles, an affection- 
ate and sensitive temperament and excellent mental powers. He 
made substantial scholarly attainments, reaching them by no 
royal road. He disproved the theory that men are the creatures 
of circumstance, for he achieved success as a student and as a 
teacher, in the face of circumstances often most adverse, by 
thorough devotion to the work he undertook. He was doubt- 
less too reserved to gain friends quickly, but he held them firmly 
when they were gained and was loyal to them. It must have 
been a keen disappointment to him, harder to bear than physical 
pain, that he was, in his prime, called to abandon the responsible 
service in which he had secured so honorable a reputation. But 
pain and disappointment alike were borne in submissive patience, 
without complaint. Christian fortitude marked his life to its 
very end." 

Wardwell married Miss Mary S. Kinney of Boston. One 
child was born to them, James Knight. Your Secretary has no 
further information regarding this son. The widow died in 
Boston, December 31, 1913. 



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CHARLES EDWARD WOODBURY, M.D. 
Born November 1, 1845, Acworth, N. H. 

Woodbury, writing from Alamogordo, New Mexico, where 
his daughter, Ruth, (Mrs. Pratt) Hves, under date of April, 
1917, gives us a clear and reasonably complete account of his 
life. In 1915 he was with the fourteen who met for our re- 
union, and seemed to be about the youngest of us all — vigorous 
and animated, quite like the ''Charley" of college days. His 
letter follows: 

"The life of a physician in general practice is usually rather 
uneventful and in a way monotonous except as it may aflfect an 
individual, but I have known but little of routine general prac- 
tice, as from the first my professional work has been institu- 
tional, as I note later in detail. I have much preferred and 
liked the administrative and executive life of a hospital rather 
than counting radial pulses or looking at protruded tongues, 
and dispensing pills and powders. My life as such has been 
a varied one with many pleasant spots and some quite the re- 
verse, but I hope on the whole, that I- have helped a little in 
the sphere in which circumstances have placed me, to benefit 
my fellow men, — but that is for the other fellows to say. 

"I returned to Hanover in August following graduation to 
attend medical lectures, finding out that a 'Medic' was quite 
a different proposition from a proud, graduating senior. I re- 
ceived my degree of M.D. from the University of New York 
in 1873. Brockway and Hall were in the same class. My first 
service was as substitute junior assistant at the N. H. Hospital 
for the Insane. Then followed service as 2nd and 1st assistant 
at the McLean Hospital in Massachusetts for several years. 
Then came a year in Europe recovering from a nearly fatal as- 
sault at the hands of an insane patient. 

"Fully recovered, I started work again. In 1881 I was 
Assistant Superintendent of the Bloomingdale Asylum in New 
York City. In 1882, I became Superintendent and Admitting 
Physician of the Rhode Island Hospital at Providence, R. I., 
and remained as such nearly eight years. After a short busi- 
ness experience, I again found myself in the institution saddle, 
this time as Inspector of Institutions for the State Board of 
Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts. This work, practically 
that of Commissioner of Lunacy, held me for seven years, with 
a residence in Arlington, Mass., and a happy and fortunate near 
neighbor of John Hardy. 

"My last institution work was as Superintendent of the 
Foxborough State Hospital in Massachusetts, which kept me 

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Franklin Worcester 



busy for nine years. I then returned to my native town where 
my home is at the present time. 

"For the most part my work now is farming, in a small, 
yes, a very small, way. I have always liked to see the other fel- 
low work. I sing in the church choir, which I direct, and of 
late have been teaching a 'Community Singing School.' 

"My infrequent visits to Dartmouth and the great changes 
there and which no longer look familiar, hint that I am growing 
old, but I can get just as enthusiastic over a football game as 
ever, even if I cannot run with old time ease and speed. 

"In 1880, I married Miss Ella Diana Ordway of Chelsea, 
Vt. We have three children, Louise Diana, now Mrs. Kinnear, 
of Boston, Mass., Ruth, now Mrs. Pratt, of Alamogordo, New 
Mexico, and Esther, now Mrs. Ricker of Baltimore, Md., and 
one grandchild, Esther T. Ricker." 



FRANKLIN WORCESTER 

Born October 27, 1845, Hollis, N. H. 
Died May 2, 1916, Hollis, N. H. 

For the main facts of Worcester's life I will quote from a 
sketch printed in the Alumni Magazine. Let me in this connec- 
tion refer the class to my circular letter of last December: 

"He was the fourth and youngest son of John Newton and 
Sarah E. (Holden) Worcester, and was bom in Hollis, Octo- 
ber 27, 1845. He prepared for college at Appleton Academy, 
New Ipswich. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi. 

"For the first year after graduation he studied at Harvard 
Law School. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced for a 
short time in Cambridge, Mass., and Minneapolis, Minn., but 
in the summer of 1872 he left the profession and entered the 
furniture, lumber and cooperage business in partnership with 
his brothers, dividing his time between Hollis and Cambridge. 
He was also largely interested in real estate, and was a director 
of the Indian Head National Bank of Nashua. 

"Mr. Worcester was superintendent of schools and member 
of the board of directors in Hollis for thirty years. In 1877 he 
was a member of the House of Representatives and in 1887 of 
the Senate. In 1898 he barely failed of the Republican nomination 
for governor, and in 1912 he received this nomination, but was 
defeated at the polls by the Democratic candidate, Samuel D. 
Felker '82. He was never married. 

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"An editorial writer in the Manchester Union styles Mr. 
Worcester *a valuable citizen, a man of public spirit, of worthy 
aspirations, of high usefulness to his community/ His class sec- 
retary writes : *No member of' the class of '70 commanded by 
his genuineness and nobility of character more universally the 
esteem of his classmates/ " 

A local paper characterizes him as "one of our best known 
and highly honored citizens/' He was "well known and highly 
honored not only in HoUis and Hillsboro County, but through- 
out the state/' He was scrupulously upright and just, and he 
was generous and kind to a rare degree. He was also, as the 
local paper above referred to puts it, "an aggressive, wide- 
awake, business man whose place it will be almost impossible 
to fill." 

Few candidates for the governorship have come so near to 
election and missed it as Frank did. 

His material estate had become abundant if not, for these 
times, great. A newspaper dispatch from Manchester, states 
that he left $250,000 to his relatives, $25,000 for the Hollis High 
School, and $15,000 in four portions for other charitable ob- 
jects. Whether this is a complete enumeration does not appear. 

Brown, who, in several ways, knew Worcester better than 
most of us, writes of him, just after his death, as follows : "We 
roomed together in the Observatory senior year, and I have 
seen him often since. For three years in succession I was for 
some weeks in Cambridge, and used to see him frequently there, 
as well as his brother and his brother's family, who lived there. 
With all his quietness he was one of the most affectionate and 
loyal of men, with great good sense and cautious practical judg- 
ment — a thorough conservative by temper, but with wide gen- 
erosity and kindness, and much delicacy of feeling and deep 
reserves. I shall miss him very much." 

In a letter to Brown, Hardy speaks of Worcester thus, out 
of an experience of intimate friendship : 

"He was the best, most serene man, in his character I ever 
knew intimately — a blessing to Hollis to which he was devoted 
all his life — a blessing to all who knew him. We went to Europe 
together in 1904, and we had a delightful boys' vacation to- 
gether. It was an inspiration to see him enjoy himself/' 



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Henry H. Fitch 



FIFTY-nFTH 

ANNUAL REUNION 

CLASS OF 1870 

ALUMNI ROOM 
COLLEGE HALL 



yune 21, 1^2^ 



S\denu 

Fruit Cocktail 

Clear Green Turtle Soup 

Stuffed Olives Salted Nuts 

Fried Brook Trout with Bacon 
Potato Chips Chilled Cucumbers 

Braced Spring Chicken, Fresh Mushrooms 

Delmonico Potatoes New Green Peas 

Tomato and Lettuce Salad, Russian Dressing 

Vanilla Ice Cream with Crushed Strawberries 

Assorted Fancy Cakes, Crackers and Cheese 

Black Coffee 



NON-GRADUATES 

DEWITT CLINTON DURGIN, A.B. (Bates 1870) 

Born January 3, 1849 

Durgin was a member of our class from 1866 to 1869. He 
left Dartmouth to enter Bates, and was graduated from the 
latter in 1870. He was teacher and superintendent in Wolfeboro, 
Franconia, Hillsboro and Ashland — all in New Hampshire — un- 
til 1890 and later; then was engaged in business in New York 
City and Gloversville, N. Y. I cannot give exact dates. As late 
as 1905 he was still in this business. I have reason to believe 
that he is still living at Franklin, N. H., but I can get no re- 
sponse to my letters. 



HENRY HOWARD FITCH 

Born April 19, 1846, Mooers, N. Y. 
Died May 3, 1894, Pekin, 111. 

The following sketch has come to me from Mrs. Edward 
P. Foster, Fitch's sister, of Marietta, O. : 

"He was the oldest child of Henry Clay Fitch and Clarissa 
Metcalf (Howard) Fitch. During his infancy, his parents re- 
moved to his mother's birthplace and ancestral home at North 
Thetford, Vt. His father, who died a deacon of many years' 
standing in the Congregational Church of Thetford Hill, sent 
him to the academy at that place, and at that academy, then 
flourishing under the well-known Hiram Orcutt as preceptor, 
he fitted for college. He entered Dartmouth in 1866, but, on 
account of sickness on his own part and of financial losses on 
the part of his parents, he discontinued his collegiate course at 
the end of the first term. Not long afterwards, at Thetford 
Hill, he began the study of medicine with his family's physician. 
Dr. Ezra C. Worcester. Subsequently having decided upon 
dentistry as his chosen profession, he associated himself as a 
student with Dr. Henry H. Bowles, a dentist at Lisbon, N. H. 
After completing his preparatory course of study in dentistry, 
he bought out the practice of Dr. L. E. Way, a dentist at Lee, 
Mass., and there entered upon the practice of his profession. 

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He remained at Lee until 1876, when he removed to Pekin, 111., 
where he continued the practice of his profession till his death. 

"On July 10, 1871, at Troy, N. Y., Dr. Fitch married Mrs. 
Mary Jane (Foote) Beach. Two children were born to them, 
viz., Agnes, born at Lee on July 23, 1873, who, after her first 
year at Wellesley College, died on November 19, 1897, and 
Alice, born at Pekin on July 2, 1876, who on April 19, 1899, 
married Charles R. Turner of Pekin. Mr. and Mrs. Turner 
now reside at 3937 Floral Avenue, Norwood, Cincinnati, O., 
and Dr. Fitch's widow makes her home with them. 

"He held high rank as a dentist, and was respected and 
beloved by all who knew him. Like Abou Ben Adhem, he loved 
his fellow-men." 



HORACE FLETCHER, A.M. (Dartmouth 1909) 
Born August 10, 1849, Lawrence, Mass. 

Mr. Fletcher was a member of the Chandler Scientific 
School, in sophomore year in 1867-8. In Who's Who he is char- 
acterized as author and lecturer. He has given the world the 
term "fletcherize," meaning thorough mastication of food. Since 
1895 he has devoted his attention to the, study of sociology — 
especially to scientific research in human nutrition, in chemical- 
physiological laboratories of Cambridge (Eng.) and Yale. He 
has written numerous bookss on nutrition and related subjects. 
He is now — or at any rate has been, within the past y^ar — oc- 
cupied as food economist for the Commission for Relief in 
Belgium. He married Grace A. Marsh. 

Of the numerous addresses to which he has answered at 
different times the latest known to your Secretary is care Fred- 
erick A. Stokes Co., 449 4th Ave., New York. . 



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William W. Roller 



WILLIAM WALLACE ROLLER 

Born November 1, 1841, Lodi, N. Y. 
Died February 8, 1916, Denver, Col. 

Before entering college Roller had served in the sixty- 
fourth regiment of New York Volunteers and risen to the rank 
of captain. He was connected with our class nearly two years; 
and acquired a commanding influence over us youngsters, not 
only on account of his greater age and experience, but because 
he was possessed of qualities that fitted him for leadership. He 
entered at once after leaving college on a business career. In 
mercantile and real estate business he was successful and made 
for himself a prominent place in the communities where he 
lived. From 1868 to 1880 he was living first in Ottawa, Kan., 
then in Colorado Springs, Col. In 1880 he settled in Salida, 
Col., where he continued to reside until a year and a half be- 
fore his death. He then removed to Denver to be with his 
children. He was twice married. He survived his second wife 
by a little more than one year. He had several children. The 
first son by the second marriage, Douglas Arnold, is a graduate 
of Colorado University, and is in the practice of law in Denver. 

The following excerpt from a Denver paper gives us some 
idea of the place Roller held in the Colorado communities where 
he had lived, and an account of the startling incidents that at- 
tended the closing hours of his life: 

"Capt. William Wallace Roller, Civil war veteran and a 
prominent figure in the early life of Colorado, who lay in a 
comatose condition in his home Sunday morning when a burg- 
lar in an adjoining room shot his son, Douglas Roller, and his 
nurse, Mrs. Mary E. Robinson, died early this morning, un- 
aware of the shooting affray that had taken place forty-eight 
hours before. 

"The burglar in the Roller home was mistaken for the 
pioneer, who) had been in poor health for several months and 
who, it was thought, had become delirious. The old veteran 
had entered the coma from which he never recovered, however, 
when the intruder fired the shots that felled his son and Mrs. 
Robinson. 

"Although both victims were struck several times by the 
burglar's lead, Douglas Roller was at his law office yesterday 
as usual, while Mrs. Robinson, at St. Luke's hospital, was re- 
ported to be doing well this morning. 

"Captain Roller was one of the builders of Salida, Col. 
He was a merchant there in the early 70's and owned the Cen- 
tral block, the largest in the town, at the time of his death. 

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"He was in his 75th year, having been born in Lodi, Erie 
county, New York, in November, 1841, the son of John PhiHp 
Roller, a prominent merchant of German ancestry." 



NEWTON HENRY WILSON 
B^orn January 4, 1846, Dunbarton, N. H. 

Since 1910 I have received three letters from Wilson, and 
quotations from these letters will give us a pretty clear impres- 
sion of the life and personality of our classmate, whom we all 
remember so distinctly, though probably few of us have seen 
him since college days. 

From the letter of June 24, 1910: 

"Your kind invitation, with enclosures, has just come to 
hand, for which I thank you. Parkinson was here May 24th 
and urged me to attend the class reunion, but my engagements 
are such that it seems impossible for me to do so without neglect- 
ing matters which duty requires me to attend to. I was fortunate 
enough to get East last fall but saw but few of my classmates. 
Visited Dr. Hall a few days and little thought he would be 
dead within a month. I had lost track of Allen for some 
years. I would like much to meet my surviving classmates in 
Hanover, this year, but must forego that pleasure. Kindly con- 
vey to those you see my kindest regards, also my invitation to 
visit me whenever in, or near Duluth." 

From the letter of May 15, 1915: 

"Your very cordial invitation to attend the reunion of Class 
70 has just come to hand, 

"If conditions were such as to justify me in attending 
same, I should be pleased to do so and meet the surviving mem- 
bers who may be present, but, owing to the fact that my wife 
has been suffering from heart trouble for nearly two years, and 
for the last three months of her life was obliged to sit in her 
chair, unable to lie down, and was expected to die from day to 
day, and my constant attendance at her side was required, my 
business affairs have been sadly neglected and it will require a 
considerable time, and close attention, to get them in proper 
shape. 

"Yesterday I placed my wife in the grave, and am now 
alone, though I have two sons with families of their own, who 
would be glad to have me live with them, but I think it best to 

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face the new condition and adjust myself to it rather than to 
cause them to change the regularity of their household pro- 
cedure." 

From the letter of August 16, 1916 — ^begging his pardon 
for ignoring his advice: 

"I have just received your request for 'sketch' and 'picture/ 
but hardly know what answer to make to same. I do not know 
what I may have written before regarding myself, but am sure 
it can have but little interest to any one. Since 1890, I have 
been practicing law in Duluth, but for the past two years have 
devoted most of my time to Masonic work. As Custodian of 
the Work of the Grand Chapter, R. A. M. and Recorder of 
several Masonic Bodies, I find my time fully occupied both day 
and evening. The one overshadowing event with me was the 
death of my beloved wife, in May, 1915. After having lived 
together 43 years, her death was a blow from which I found it 
hard to recover, but by continuous work I have been able to 
keep my mind on the present rather than on the past. Though 
in my 71st year, I feel young in spirit, am physically above the 
standard for that age, and my only ambition now is to be of 
some benefit to my fellows. I have no personal ambition for I 
have received more honors than I have been entitled to in the 
past. 

"I do not think you should publish any of this, but send it 
to you, with my 'picture' taken last year, for your personal 
inspection, and that I may not be accused of indifference to the 
desires of others." 



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A SUMMARY 

Academic C. S. D. 

Whole number connected with the Class 58 21 

Graduated 51 9 

Living graduates at this date (September 1, 1917.) 18 3 

Living non-graduates, as far as Secretary knows 2 ? 

Note. Folsom received degree of A. B. in 1902; Hall, in 1872. 

Of the 51 graduates (Academic), 43 married. Of those 
who lived till 1881, all married except Smart, who died at the 
age of 43, and Worcester, who died at the age of 70. 

Of the 43 who married, 10 had no children. The other 33 
had 101 children, 56 boys and 45 girls. Of these, 16 boys and 
3 girls have died. Number of grand-children, unknown. 

Of the 51 graduates there are now 18 living. Of these 18, 
7 have devoted their lives to law, 2 to medicine, 1 (Talbot) to 
the ministry, 4 to teaching or education, 2 to business (strictly), 
2 (Cheney and Lewis) unclassified. [Among teachers I include 
Bellows whose work has been in both the ministry (10 years) 
and teaching]. 

Of those who have died, 6 were lawyers: Viz, Pike, 
Phelps^ Richmond, Tewksbury, Wakefield, Walker; 7 
were doctors: Brockway, Dearborne, R. F., Hall, Hunt, Leach, 
Pray, Smart ; 7 were ministers : Brown, Dearborn, J. W., Farn- 
ham, Leonard, Merrill, Peck, Stone; 5 were teachers: Avery, 
Barber, Plummer, Randall, Wardwell; 4 were in business 
(strictly): DeMerritte, Edgell, Hazen, Worcester; 4 were in 
other vocations: Boss, Hoyt, Lewis, Smith. 

The above statistics refer to the Academic graduates only, 
except when otherwise indicated; and the reservation must 
every where be made: "as far as your Secretary knows." 



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